Re: new laptop

Whiskers wrote:
On 2006-08-30, BillW50 <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers wrote:
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Does yours have the switch to toggle the touchpad on and off?
That's one of the features that sold my machine to me, but I've
noticed more recent models seem to lack what I think is a
near-essential feature if the touchpad has to be where typing hands
will inevitably interfere with the 'mouse'.

I'm new to touchpads and I see this can be a problem. Although the
tweaks for my touchpad has like a zillion settings on it. And one of
them turns the pointer off while you are typing. Sounds like the
answer to a dream coming true, doesn't it? I need to play with this
and see how well it works out.

Details awaited with interest :))

Well I don't know what it is supposed to do, as I don't see it hiding at
all within OE6 anyway. lol Maybe in some applications it does, but I
haven't found any yet. And I haven't tripped my trial version of Outlook
2003 yet. ;)

But when you say you turn off your touchpad, do you mean you turn off
the tap to click feature? As when that is off, your pointer will float
around from my thumbs and palm touching the pad while I type. But it
doesn't matter to me where it floats to while I am typing away. Does it
to you? As the I-beam isn't effected at all.


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