Touchpad settings

[crew51m]

My touchpad is a bit too sensitive, is there a way to change the settings? I have a Toshiba a305-6916.

 

[Lordbob75]

Go into mouse settings, they are in there.

~Lordbob

 

[crew51m]

Ok, thanks

 

[crew51m]

The settings do not have anything for the touchpad, just the mouse.

 

[Lordbob75]

Turn down mouse sensitivity, it works for touchpad too.

~Lordbob

 

[vcator]

I have exactly the same issue (Samsung Notebook NP-R70) . . the touchapad is soooo sensitive its driving me bonkers.

Apologies for being completely dim, but where is the mouse sensitivity adjustment ?
Under HARDWARE, MOUSE, I've a dialogue with adjustments for BUTTON, POINTERS, WHEEL and a tab for HARDWARE, but I don't see any dialogue for sensitivity adjustment.

It appears Win7 has configured the Touchpad as a PS2 mouse. When not on the move I use a USB wireless mouse rather than the Touchpad, but of course all you have to do is look at the Touchpad and it sends the mouse out of sight.

I tried typing in "Touchpad sensitivity" into MS Help . . .and provided MS with feedback on the usefulness of what the search returns ;-/

Much appreciate your thoughts

 

[Lordbob75]

VCator, it should just be either sensitivity settings, or acceleration settings. The option should be under Pointer options I believe.

~Lordbob

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
on a laptop you can DISABLE the touchpad completely on boot -- I'm not a great fan of touchpads - and on my laptop if I don't disable the touchpad I get the cursor randomly jumping all over the place making data entry almost impossible.

What you do is to download the generic SYNAPTICS touch pad driver - this will work on pretty well on all laptops.

On install you get settings such as display options on boot where you can alter the options for that session etc etc. including disabling the wretched thing completely.

You can also set it so you don't see the options at start up as well.

Drivers | Synaptics

cheers
jimbo

 

[vcator]

Jimbo, the Synaptics driver works perfectly, and sensitivity can be adjusted
Whew . . .you saved me from going completely bonkers.

Thank you for your help

vcator

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
That's what we're here for.

I had horrible problems myself with this stuff too - by passing on info it makes it easier for everyone else too.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Zendor]

Check for changes and reload ALPS driver

I had the same condition occur. I was frustrated because I could not access any touchpad features. Upon further investigation, I found the Microsoft's PS2 mouse software had been installed inadvertently. So I when into the driver tab and changed the driver back to the ALPS. Restart... problem solved. Now by going to the Mouse configuration through the Control Panel, I was able to change the settings - uncheck the 'tapping' box. Problem solved... no more jumping around the screen and inadvertent text changes/deletions.

 

[Xpuctenna]

Just watched a YouTube video saying you should shut off TAPPING feature; as the tapping makes the touchpad sensitive. He's speaking about his Fujitsu T730 Tablet PC; yet it worked for my ASUS.http://youtu.be/fWYPALyDbqw

From my system tray I selected the icon that looks like the monitor; right clicked the PROPERTY OF TOUCH PAD; select ELAN tab; OPTIONS tab; ONE FINGER tab; TAPPING tab; and remove the checkmarks.

Made a world of difference.

 

[Xpuctenna]

This is for sensitive touchpad issues!

 

[ThrashZone]

Looks like it,
Mouse properties should show a section for your touchpad settings,

Open it and all the settings will be listed,

 

[Xpuctenna]

Thanks Thrash Zone. I don't have those options in Windows 7. I have the ELAN TAB vs your DEVICE SETTINGS! Silly that Windows 7 doesn't provide TOUCHPAD settings. Remarkable difference removing the TAPPING feature!

 

[ThrashZone]

You should be able to see more options under your Additional section/ your on One finger,
Cheers.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Stupid Touchpads

I was just given a Toshiba Satellite Pro C650 (I'm a laptop noob).

It took stupid amounts of time to install Windows, as I could not get the Windows installer disc to correctly partition the SSD.

I couldn't determine if the version of GParted on my Ubuntu 10 disc supported "Advanced Format".
Linux Mint doesn't seem to have a useful GUI tool for disc partitioning (the default one is totally useless).
I would have used GParted, but my external HDD with LM17 + GParted was unavailable (as I was scanning it in an attempt to recover some deleted files).

It seems that the touchpad was interpreting my swipes as double taps (whenever it was most inconvenient for me).
Eventually the double taps resulted in Windows being installed on a tiny partition I had created for Linux.

Just to confirm the info in this thread:
It's impossible to adjust the touchpad settings without installing a driver, despite the fact that the touchpad is running without one at the moment?

 

[cngtman]

sensitivity of mouse cursor

By sensitivity, do you mean when the cursor cross over the box, or hovers over the box, the action is taken like one has clicked on enter? Drives me crazy when the mouse rolls over a box and the PC takes that as an approval click. How can I fix this annoying 0problem?