Toshiba laptop aggravation
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From: Richard Henry on 11 Mar 2010 10:34 I have three Toshiba laptops due to ignorant purchases over time. All three have a mousepad in front of the keyboard which has an auto-click function - if you tap it with a finger, it moves the focus to the current cursor location. The problem with all three is that during normal 10-finger typing, thumb movement near the pad causes an inadvertent auto-click, messing up my typing. I want to turn the auto-click function off. Anybody know how?
From: Joerg on 11 Mar 2010 10:49 Richard Henry wrote: > I have three Toshiba laptops due to ignorant purchases over time. All > three have a mousepad in front of the keyboard which has an auto-click > function - if you tap it with a finger, it moves the focus to the > current cursor location. The problem with all three is that during > normal 10-finger typing, thumb movement near the pad causes an > inadvertent auto-click, messing up my typing. > > I want to turn the auto-click function off. Anybody know how? Hoping it works like on my laptops: Go into the Control Panel -> Mouse -> Hardware -> Tapping -> uncheck the box "Enable Tapping". That's it. While at it you might as well turn off other over-sophistications such as "click lock". That's what I do the instant I get a new laptop, even before installing any apps. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: John Larkin on 11 Mar 2010 11:14 On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:49:37 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >Richard Henry wrote: >> I have three Toshiba laptops due to ignorant purchases over time. All >> three have a mousepad in front of the keyboard which has an auto-click >> function - if you tap it with a finger, it moves the focus to the >> current cursor location. The problem with all three is that during >> normal 10-finger typing, thumb movement near the pad causes an >> inadvertent auto-click, messing up my typing. >> >> I want to turn the auto-click function off. Anybody know how? > > >Hoping it works like on my laptops: Go into the Control Panel -> Mouse >-> Hardware -> Tapping -> uncheck the box "Enable Tapping". That's it. > >While at it you might as well turn off other over-sophistications such >as "click lock". That's what I do the instant I get a new laptop, even >before installing any apps. I just bought four used Win98 laptops. They have real parallel ports and floppies, and '98 programs can do direct port i/o, so they are handy for lots of things. I use them to run uP background debugger pods. And I use them as "print servers" with my Epson wide-carriage fanfold printers (copy file from XP onto a floppy, carry over to laptop, print.) The Epson Windows USB drivers always install in Polish or some strange language that I can't understand, and don't seem to want to print in fast mode now matter how you play with them. From the laptop parallel port, they print full blast with no drivers at all. I use them with real PS/2 mice. Those mousepads are awful. It's weird to buy a computer for less than a scope probe. John
From: D Yuniskis on 11 Mar 2010 11:38 Hi John, John Larkin wrote: [win98 laptops] > I use them with real PS/2 mice. Those mousepads are awful. Most mousepads are sited in the wrong place. But, then again, with a laptop you haven't much choice... > It's weird to buy a computer for less than a scope probe. <frown> We discard laptops with anything less than a Piii.
From: John Larkin on 11 Mar 2010 11:40
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:49 -0700, D Yuniskis <not.going.to.be(a)seen.com> wrote: >Hi John, > >John Larkin wrote: > >[win98 laptops] > >> I use them with real PS/2 mice. Those mousepads are awful. > >Most mousepads are sited in the wrong place. But, then >again, with a laptop you haven't much choice... > >> It's weird to buy a computer for less than a scope probe. > ><frown> We discard laptops with anything less than a Piii. Right. Big companies unload, sometimes, thousands of working laptops. Brokers buy them by the pallet, refurb, and resell them with a warranty. They can be handy to have around sometimes. It doesn't take a Core Duo to wiggle bits on a parallel port. You can get a clean working '98 laptop on ebay for around $50. A refurb IBM from a broker, with 6 month warranty and a good battery, goes for about $250. John |