Vista - Turning off "tapping" feature on touch pad

I'm having a problem trying to turn off the tapping function of the touch pad
in MS Vista... I have a Dell Inspiron 1715 laptop that was running MS XP and
I just upgraded to MS Vista Home Premium Edition.

I can't figure out how to turn of the "tapping" feature on the touch pad. It
was easy on XP
- control panel -mouse-divices -touch pad..and just turn it off. No such
control can I find in Vista once you get to the mouse section under control
panel. It drives me crazy...do I just have to live with this or is there a
"switch" that I'm unaware of?

I have a Toshiba that had basic functionality of the touchpad with no
additional drivers loaded. In order to have the customization features
(scrolling and such), I had to grab a Vista driver package off of Toshiba's
site. There wasn't one for my specific 3 year old model but I got one for
the same type of touchpad (Alps), loaded it, and everything is as it was in
XP now.

Try Dell's site for drivers.

"gliderdriver23" <gliderdriver23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06F64BED-BB44-445C-8E9A-21390ECCD12F@microsoft.com...
> I'm having a problem trying to turn off the tapping function of the touch
> pad
> in MS Vista... I have a Dell Inspiron 1715 laptop that was running MS XP
> and
> I just upgraded to MS Vista Home Premium Edition.
>
> I can't figure out how to turn of the "tapping" feature on the touch pad.
> It
> was easy on XP
> - control panel -mouse-divices -touch pad..and just turn it off. No such
> control can I find in Vista once you get to the mouse section under
> control
> panel. It drives me crazy...do I just have to live with this or is there a
> "switch" that I'm unaware of?

I hope you will pester Dell about this. I have a Precision M70 notebook from
Dell which has the same issue. Its touchpad / stick is made by Alps. No
Vista-compatible drivers have been made available.

I was elated to find an updated Vista driver for the Synaptic touchpad on
another notebook, but the ability to turn off tap-to-click was not included
in the driver!

The end result is that both of my notebooks are running Vista, and I have
had to turn off their touchpads in the BIOS and use USB mice.

Rant: It is REALLY stupid to make tap-to-click the default behavior. The
damned touchpads already come with buttons. Hell, the one on the Dell has
FOUR buttons! There is no need to give me that many different ways to click
-- especially when, depending upon environmental issues like atmospheric
moisture content, the touchpad can become so sensitive that it "clicks" every
time you look at it!

"gliderdriver23" wrote:

> I'm having a problem trying to turn off the tapping function of the touch pad
> in MS Vista... I have a Dell Inspiron 1715 laptop that was running MS XP and
> I just upgraded to MS Vista Home Premium Edition.
>
> I can't figure out how to turn of the "tapping" feature on the touch pad. It
> was easy on XP
> - control panel -mouse-divices -touch pad..and just turn it off. No such
> control can I find in Vista once you get to the mouse section under control
> panel. It drives me crazy...do I just have to live with this or is there a
> "switch" that I'm unaware of?

I wonder if the Toshiba Alps drivers would load and work correctly on a
Dell?

"jimmuh" <jimmuh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:64DBA837-53ED-4CE3-922A-BDE54E4785CB@microsoft.com...
>I hope you will pester Dell about this. I have a Precision M70 notebook
>from
> Dell which has the same issue. Its touchpad / stick is made by Alps. No
> Vista-compatible drivers have been made available.
>
> I was elated to find an updated Vista driver for the Synaptic touchpad on
> another notebook, but the ability to turn off tap-to-click was not
> included
> in the driver!
>
> The end result is that both of my notebooks are running Vista, and I have
> had to turn off their touchpads in the BIOS and use USB mice.
>
> Rant: It is REALLY stupid to make tap-to-click the default behavior. The
> damned touchpads already come with buttons. Hell, the one on the Dell has
> FOUR buttons! There is no need to give me that many different ways to
> click
> -- especially when, depending upon environmental issues like atmospheric
> moisture content, the touchpad can become so sensitive that it "clicks"
> every
> time you look at it!
>
> "gliderdriver23" wrote:
>
>> I'm having a problem trying to turn off the tapping function of the touch
>> pad
>> in MS Vista... I have a Dell Inspiron 1715 laptop that was running MS XP
>> and
>> I just upgraded to MS Vista Home Premium Edition.
>>
>> I can't figure out how to turn of the "tapping" feature on the touch pad.
>> It
>> was easy on XP
>> - control panel -mouse-divices -touch pad..and just turn it off. No such
>> control can I find in Vista once you get to the mouse section under
>> control
>> panel. It drives me crazy...do I just have to live with this or is there
>> a
>> "switch" that I'm unaware of?

I have a Sony laptop which uses the Alps driver. Until Sony offers an
update, this worked for me:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...ngdgnj.0&ct=DL

After that was installed, Windows Update (optional) found a newer version
from Alps, once it saw I had an Alps touchpad installed (versus the generic
PS/2 one). I installed that, and that works fine too.



"gliderdriver23" wrote:

> I'm having a problem trying to turn off the tapping function of the touch pad
> in MS Vista... I have a Dell Inspiron 1715 laptop that was running MS XP and
> I just upgraded to MS Vista Home Premium Edition.
>
> I can't figure out how to turn of the "tapping" feature on the touch pad. It
> was easy on XP
> - control panel -mouse-divices -touch pad..and just turn it off. No such
> control can I find in Vista once you get to the mouse section under control
> panel. It drives me crazy...do I just have to live with this or is there a
> "switch" that I'm unaware of?

"gliderdriver23" <gliderdriver23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06F64BED-BB44-445C-8E9A-21390ECCD12F@microsoft.com...
> I'm having a problem trying to turn off the tapping function of the touch pad
> in MS Vista... I have a Dell Inspiron 1715 laptop that was running MS XP and
> I just upgraded to MS Vista Home Premium Edition.
>
> I can't figure out how to turn of the "tapping" feature on the touch pad. It
> was easy on XP
> - control panel -mouse-divices -touch pad..and just turn it off. No such
> control can I find in Vista once you get to the mouse section under control
> panel. It drives me crazy...do I just have to live with this or is there a
> "switch" that I'm unaware of?


Sounds like the touchpad driver you have is not the right one.

--
Gary VanderMolen