Re: new laptop

On 2006-08-31, BillW50 <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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. ;)

I don't use Windows so I can't make any suggestions about that.

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.

My touchpad has a push-button which toggles the touchpad on or off, and an
LED to indicate the current status. The best illustration I can find is
in the manual, which is on line at
<http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00218664.pdf> - the picture is on
page 1-23 (or page 28 of 192 in my PDF reader). When 'off', the on-screen
pointer is frozen in place (I try always to 'park' it where I can find it
again!) and there is no response of any kind from the touchpad.

Disabling the 'tap to click' feature would certainly overcome the problem
of having the insertion point in the current document moving about
unexpectedly, and the problem of having 'focus' moved to a different
'window' (as long as your set-up doesn't change focus according to the
pointer position even without a 'click'). It just leaves you to find the
pointer again when next you want to use it.

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