It won’t allow me to adjust the sensitivity of the touchpad, the “up/down” areas of the touchpad and the corners which can be set for certain special functions as well. In it are about 21 files that belong somewhere on my computer associated with the mouse driver that only contains one PS2 driver that I don’t have. The folder that I found is labeled “Apoint”. I know it didn’t belong as a sound scheme (the place where you can label a name for your personalized settings if you have extra speakers, etc.

I fououd the Alps driver on my hardrive somewhere in my sound schemes. I inadvertantly sent you an email due to the very problem you discuss above regarding the Dell touchpad but one that resides in the Vista version of Windows but not the one I need which is on the Windows XP touchpad (from my hardware invoice is an Alps Touchpad.) I’ll wrap up by suggesting again, however, that you try to get used to the feature now so you don’t fall further and further behind as PCs evolve with their user input devices. See where it shows “Taps” “Tap to Click”? Just uncheck that box and click on “Apply” on the lower right and you’ve disabled the tap to click capability of your Dell trackpad. Click on “Dell Touchpad” on the top left and you’ll find that this is all just an elaborate path to get to the special Dell trackpad/touchpad control app:Ĭlick on the huge arrow icon and you’ll launch a separate application supplied by Dell that lets you gain complete control over the touchpad:Īlmost there. Not really what you want, but we’re getting there. You want “Mouse” settings (why there’s no “Mouse / Touchpad” or similar I don’t fully understand, just as it’s puzzling that there are Tablet options when my laptop isn’t a tablet and doesn’t support that functionality. You’ll now see the many, many different ways you can customize your Vista experience. As is typical in Vista, there’s a way to tweak what you want, but it involves a couple of steps…įirst off, choose Control Panels off the START (uh, Vista logo) menu on the lower left of your computer screen:

I can’t say for sure that’ll happen in the PC world, but I certainly don’t expect any future Apple laptops to have discrete buttons to push for button behaviors in the operating system.ĭon’t want to do that? That’s okay. So my first thought is that this might be a behavior that you just need to train yourself to work with rather than disable, so as you hop from laptop to laptop in future years you’ll be ready for the potential elimination of “mouse” buttons.

Definitely something you have to get used to, but once you do, it’s pretty cool. Heck, on the latest Apple MacBook line, there’s no button at all: the trackpad is both the dragging and tapping surface. I’m not sure when that started to be popular, but just about all trackpads now seem to have the ability to detect taps in addition to sliding fingers, so it’s quite common now to find computers – Mac and PC – that have the capability you’re talking about.

Dell inspiron mouse pad not working