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Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« on: April 07, 2014, 07:35:32 PM »
I can't type a damned thing without the friggin' pad thingie (you know, the mouse wannabe POS thing that's on laptops) causing what I've just typed to highlight and delete what I've just done.T

I hate this pad thing. Tried deleting the driver in Device Manager and the pad with pointer is still there. IT JUST. WON'T. GO. AWAY.

Tried not using the wireless mouse. Doesn't seem to matter.spire

This is an Acer Aspire One running Win8.

I want to deactivate the damned pad. I don't want it, need it, and it's driving me f'n nuts. What do I need to do to get rid of the POS?
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2014, 07:37:50 PM »
Is that the tapping feature?  Turn it off.

Control Panel > Mouse > Touchpad

You can disable the whole touchpad in the system configuration menu (BIOS).  Press F1 at boot-up to access it.
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2014, 07:51:40 PM »
This is an experiment. I'm typing this sentence and the ones that follow in order to determine if I have the same problem I had before. So far, so good. What I wound up doing was going to the Acer menu (you know, that menu that all these computers have that you can use to buy shit or report a problem or go Airplane mode (whatever the **** THAT is) and this one offered me the option of turning off the touchpad. Function/F7. Goodbye, asshole Touchpad. Your ass is sucking buttermilk now.

I never could get to the BIOS because the machine would boot up like it always did, even though I pressed F1, F7, F8, F9, F10 during bootup. Apparently I don't have the magic Acer wand that gets me into the BIOS.

**** 'em. I don't need 'em. Mister Touchpad, your shit is toast. And I'm a much happier camper now.  :-)
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2014, 07:52:51 PM »
This is an Acer Aspire One running Win8.

I want to deactivate the damned pad. I don't want it, need it, and it's driving me f'n nuts. What do I need to do to get rid of the POS?

That's what I use.  It took me a long time to get used to the pad. It's super sensitive.  I still screw things up, but I'm a lot better at it now.

I like the feature of enlarging or shrinking the page at a touch.   

 
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2014, 07:57:35 PM »
You should be able to adjust the sensitivity.  Check the mouse/touchpad settings on the Control Panel.
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2014, 08:03:39 PM »
You should be able to adjust the sensitivity.  Check the mouse/touchpad settings on the Control Panel.

Part of what's happening is my right thumb tends to creep over into the touchpad lane. And all kinds of irritating shit happens as a result.

I'm fine with the mouse. I just don't want the touchpad. Ergo, the touchpad is history. Turning it OFF completely solved the problem. Screw the sensitivity. (I'm a bastard that way).  :-)
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2014, 08:04:59 PM »
That's what I use.  It took me a long time to get used to the pad. It's super sensitive.  I still screw things up, but I'm a lot better at it now.

I like the feature of enlarging or shrinking the page at a touch.   

 

Thanks for your note, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one on the planet that had a problem with it. I was ready to chuck the damned machine out the window. I'm glad I don't have to do that now.
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2014, 01:28:09 AM »
Thanks for your note, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one on the planet that had a problem with it. I was ready to chuck the damned machine out the window. I'm glad I don't have to do that now.

Wife had the same problem with her ACER & I figured out how to get the dam thing shut off.  Now if I could get her to shut off the wireless mouse so the batt. lasts.

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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2014, 04:10:50 AM »
  There is an on/off switch on the mouse. Also , you can enlarge or shrink a picture by holding down ctrl and spinning your mouse wheel.

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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2014, 07:34:46 AM »
I work in IT and have a different laptop nearly every week.  While I have found some are worse than others for me, this happens on most all laptops for me as I have large hands.  I usually get used to it, or some of the newer laptops have a little dot on them you can tap once or twice and it will disable the pad all together.  I usually use a little blue tooth mouse or just a regular USB mouse with my laptops.
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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2014, 01:32:39 PM »
My Vaio, I had to "disable touch pad" using key combination Fn + F1.

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Re: Awright, this shit's pissing me off
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2014, 01:57:11 PM »
  There is an on/off switch on the mouse. Also , you can enlarge or shrink a picture by holding down ctrl and spinning your mouse wheel.

I assume you are talking to me so, the wife knows about the switch but can't grasp that the mouse is consuming power when she's not using it.