Laptop: Configuring your Mousepad

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Arthur

Hello, and happy New year. Ok, here's the deal... I just
bought a new laptop. The brand doesn't matter, due to
the question being relevant to al laptops. I have used
and seen other laptops operate this way, where you can
tap the mousepad itself in one or two radip successions,
and the motion simulates hitting the left mouse button.
Now, I have tried to go to the Control panel, Mouse
applet, and to no avail, I can not figure out for the
life of me how to make mine do this. It did it very
briefly while I was entering information into the
computer for registration purposes, but after that, NADA,
nothing. I liked that feature and would very much like
to enable it again. Any suggestions would be very
helpful. Please E-Mail ASAP.
Thanks.
 
Hi,

are u using single click option where u select and then click or are u using double click option where u just click once. Check out that in Tools | Folder Options in Explorer.

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M. Rajesh

----- Arthur wrote: -----

Hello, and happy New year. Ok, here's the deal... I just
bought a new laptop. The brand doesn't matter, due to
the question being relevant to al laptops. I have used
and seen other laptops operate this way, where you can
tap the mousepad itself in one or two radip successions,
and the motion simulates hitting the left mouse button.
Now, I have tried to go to the Control panel, Mouse
applet, and to no avail, I can not figure out for the
life of me how to make mine do this. It did it very
briefly while I was entering information into the
computer for registration purposes, but after that, NADA,
nothing. I liked that feature and would very much like
to enable it again. Any suggestions would be very
helpful. Please E-Mail ASAP.
Thanks.
 
Arthur said:
Hello, and happy New year. Ok, here's the deal... I just
bought a new laptop. The brand doesn't matter, due to
the question being relevant to al laptops. I have used
and seen other laptops operate this way, where you can
tap the mousepad itself in one or two radip successions,
and the motion simulates hitting the left mouse button.
Now, I have tried to go to the Control panel, Mouse
applet, and to no avail, I can not figure out for the
life of me how to make mine do this. It did it very
briefly while I was entering information into the
computer for registration purposes, but after that, NADA,
nothing. I liked that feature and would very much like
to enable it again. Any suggestions would be very
helpful. Please E-Mail ASAP.
Thanks.
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I know what you are asking ... but, heck, I can't find the control
either. I would have thought it on the touch-pad control, and I
remember it being on my Dell laptop, but on this Toshiba laptop I cannot
find it. The only mouse control available is the Microsoft Intellipoint
software which is there for when I connect the Microsoft wireless
keyboard and mouse. It seems to have taken over any Toshiba software
that might have been there and now going. Luckily my touch pad responds
to a double click as we both want and expect. I'll be curious to watch
this thread and find the resolution.
 
In the mouse appelet click on device settings then on settings.
Highlight Tapping then enable tapping.
Click on the other settings and enable what you wish.
My advice is don't get to carried away changing all these settings as it can
be difficult to remember which one's you've changed then change them back if
you don't like the result.
Personally I hate these synaptic touchpads so I purchased a wireless,
optical USB mouse.
 
Hello, and happy New year. Ok, here's the deal... I just
bought a new laptop. The brand doesn't matter, due to
the question being relevant to al laptops. I have used
and seen other laptops operate this way, where you can
tap the mousepad itself in one or two radip successions,
and the motion simulates hitting the left mouse button.
Now, I have tried to go to the Control panel, Mouse
applet, and to no avail, I can not figure out for the
life of me how to make mine do this. It did it very
briefly while I was entering information into the
computer for registration purposes, but after that, NADA,
nothing. I liked that feature and would very much like
to enable it again. Any suggestions would be very
helpful. Please E-Mail ASAP.
Thanks.
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When I upgraded my old Compaq laptop from Win98 to XP Home, it wiped out
the Synaptic software that was there. I was able to find a download from
Synaptic for the mousepad that worked well with the laptop. After
installing, I was able to configure all of this features again. This was
chancey since the Synaptic download was for their hardware - not for
hardware they supplied to OEMs (that could potentially work a bit
differently) but luckily it worked.

Since this is a brand new machine, the software for the extra features of
the mousepad should be on that system somewhere (may be worth a call to
technical support). Have seen this software setup different ways on
different systems:

-pages added to Control Panel> Mouse

-a separate control panel applet dedicated to the mousepad software (try
Classic view in Control Panel to get a straightforward list of all
available *.CPL files)

-a shortcut in the start menu

By the way, the setting that you're describing is usually in the options as
something similar to "Double tap recognized as double click" or "tap to
left click allowed" in the mousepad software. Usually a box to check or
uncheck. Sometimes there is an additional "test pad" to adjust the speed
and sensitivity levels (how hard or soft you have to tap). A corresponding
setting for ignoring resting of the palms on the pad while typing is
usually available too.
 
Bernie said:
In the mouse appelet click on device settings then on settings.
Highlight Tapping then enable tapping.
Click on the other settings and enable what you wish.
My advice is don't get to carried away changing all these settings as it can
be difficult to remember which one's you've changed then change them back if
you don't like the result.
Personally I hate these synaptic touchpads so I purchased a wireless,
optical USB mouse.
Click to expand...

That's the funny thing ... Device Settings, or any "tapping" controls
are not there.... I'm going to leave well enough along. It works.
Mystery why gone.
 
Actually, it DOES matter what the brand is, you need the drivers for your
touchpad on your computer.
 
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