Turning Off Touchpad Tapping

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whitepotatoe

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I just bought a new laptop with Vista and cannot figure out how to turn off the "touchpad tapping" feature. I accidentally hit the touchpad with my left thumb regularly while typing so the cursor jumps across the page. With XP I turned off tapping in the Device Settings tab in Mouse Properties. Vista does not have this tab. If anyone knows how to get rid of tapping please help me out.

Thanks in advance.

whitepotatoe
 
I had a similar issue. I looked it up and you go to Control Panel. Go to Mouse. The last tab should say Device Settings or something like that. Click on that. Find settings and click. A mini menu will show "Touchpad". if you click on that you can just uncheck the box that enables tapping.
 
There is no Device Settings tab in my mouse properties. Here is a screen shot.

MouseProperties.jpg
 
it doesnt look like you have the touch pad icon on the taskbar. try windows update and download it if available. i know you can use that icon and disable it from there.
 
Find the drivers for your touchpad and download them. There will be an option to disable that, along with enable many other annoying features :P
 
Omega, I tried all the FN buttons, none turn off tapping.

kof2000, I have all updates available from Windows Update, there is still no device settings tab.

The_Other_One, how do I know where to download the correct drivers? Here is a screen shot of my Device Manager window with my mouse driver file details.

Thanks for all your help.

DeviceManager.jpg
 
I found the proper driver download, and now the device settings tab has appeared and I got rid of tapping.

Thanks for all of your help.
 
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