Turn Of Double Tap? Please Help!!

[InsomniacP]

Hey there all,

The name is Paul, If you read this z3r010 I'm the guy that fitted your Airconditioning wanted to send you a PM but not able to yet...?

My question is just recently installed Win 7 and since I have I am unable to to turn off the double tap, now I know my way around a PC quite well but for the life of me I just can't find this pescy setting, Please help...

Regards,
Paul

 

[Brink]

Hello Paul, and welcome to Seven Forums.

This may be what you are after.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10117-single-click-double-click-open-item.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[InsomniacP]

Almost Shawn,

I have already tried this but to no prevail, the problem I have is this being a Laptop and when i move the cursor or slightly catch the pad it either jumps to another part of the text box, very frustrating! So what I am trying to achieve is to disable the Double tap from the mouse pad and not the actual mouse buttons...?

 

[Dwarf]

What is the full model number of the laptop? This should be found on a label underneath. You should be able to find information here (you will need to select the correct model from the list). Toshiba Support - Homepage

You could also see if your query has been answered on their forum: Laptops - Toshiba Forums, specifically http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Keyboards-Touchpads/bd-p/brd_input

Please report back with your progress in order that it may help others.

 

[InsomniacP]

Cheers Dwarf.... Will do..

 

[Brink]

Paul,

Your touchpad settings may vary a bit from this, but this is how it's done with a Synaptics TouchPad.

• Open Mouse in the Control Panel (icons view)
• Click on the Device Settings tab, then the Settings tab below.
• Select "Tapping" in the left pane, then unchec the "Enable Tapping" box as below.
• OK your way out to apply.

 

[InsomniacP]

Paul,

Your touchpad settings may vary a bit from this, but this is how it's done with a Synaptics TouchPad.

• Open Mouse in the Control Panel (icons view)
• Click on the Device Settings tab, then the Settings tab below.
• Select "Tapping" in the left pane, then unchec the "Enable Tapping" box as below.
• OK your way out to apply.

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Cheers for this Brink, this is also what Toshiba told me to do but as you can see from this image I don't have this option...???

 

[whs]

Being a practical guy I would disable the touchpad and work with a $12 mouse.

 

[Bongo]

Paul,

Your touchpad settings may vary a bit from this, but this is how it's done with a Synaptics TouchPad.

• Open Mouse in the Control Panel (icons view)
• Click on the Device Settings tab, then the Settings tab below.
• Select "Tapping" in the left pane, then unchec the "Enable Tapping" box as below.
• OK your way out to apply.

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Cheers for this Brink, this is also what Toshiba told me to do but as you can see from this image I don't have this option...???

Do you install the touchpad drivers from Toshiba that may give you that option ? It looks like you are using standard windows drivers
Jerry

 

[MWRed]

I have a Toshiba Laptop, and I have the double tap option. But, i've also read that there are a lot of people that have this same problem. I'm not sure a driver update would help or not, or if there would even be any drivers newer than what you already have. Going to the Toshiba site to see how much newer the drivers are than what you have installed at the moment might be an idea too.

The only, albeit, temporary thing that people have done is turning the double tap speed up to max so that the tapping would have to be quite fast for it to actually do anything.

 

[MWRed]

Paul,

Your touchpad settings may vary a bit from this, but this is how it's done with a Synaptics TouchPad.

• Open Mouse in the Control Panel (icons view)
• Click on the Device Settings tab, then the Settings tab below.
• Select "Tapping" in the left pane, then unchec the "Enable Tapping" box as below.
• OK your way out to apply.

View attachment 124159View attachment 124160

Cheers for this Brink, this is also what Toshiba told me to do but as you can see from this image I don't have this option...???

Do you install the touchpad drivers from Toshiba that may give you that option ? It looks like you are using standard windows drivers
Jerry

I didn't notice that the first time I looked at it, but yes, it seems as if yours is using a generic driver to run it. This is mine (notice the highlighted area)

 

[Brink]

Paul,



Your touchpad settings may vary a bit from this, but this is how it's done with a Synaptics TouchPad.

• Open Mouse in the Control Panel (icons view)
• Click on the Device Settings tab, then the Settings tab below.
• Select "Tapping" in the left pane, then unchec the "Enable Tapping" box as below.
• OK your way out to apply.

View attachment 124159View attachment 124160

Cheers for this Brink, this is also what Toshiba told me to do but as you can see from this image I don't have this option...???

You might download and install the new 15.1.22 driver version that Synaptic just released to see if it may help. It has this option with mine.

Drivers | Synaptics

 

[Imperfect1]

Paul, I've got a Synaptics PS/2 also, and am wondering whether you're looking in the right place for the Tapping function. For example, in your screenshot, it looks like your options TREE ISN'T OPENED, so you can't see all of your options. Why don't you try following my directions below to see if they will lead you to the control for Tapping. There are some other controls that will also help your mousepad's sensitivity issues. I'll highlight them for you:

Right click Desktop to open Personalize
Scroll down and select: MOUSE POINTERS; this opens the TOUCHPAD and MOUSE PROPERTIES page.
Select DEVICE SETTINGS:
Click the Settings bar:
Double-Click on Overview to open the tree and read the list of the multiple controls. (Double click on the + icon to open tree.)
TAPPING: Set to ‘No.’
SENSITIVITY: Double click on Sensitivity to open the tree and set the controls: (Double click on the + icon to open tree.)
PALM CHECK: (You can leave the Palm Check at the default spot, near center but a little toward Maximum. If mouse gets erratic, increase toward Maximum. If mouse is not responsive to certain clicks, decrease toward Minimum)
TOUCH SENSITIVITY:
Light Touch – (You can start with having it in the center, and adjust as needed.)
Click on Apply, and then OK.

 

[InsomniacP]

Hey there fella's followed your advice and it seems worse lol... please check out these images....

 

[Imperfect1]

There's no way that merely opening the device options tree could have made the situation worse. It sounds like your Synaptics touchpad/mouse may have become corrupted, because you should have the Tapping option. Your driver clearly does not seem to be the most recent. (It would have helped if you had told us this earlier!) Perhaps that is the problem, and you need to download the most recent driver for your touchpad/mouse.