I have a Toshiba that had basic functionality of the touchpad with no
additional drivers loaded. In order to have the customization features
(scrolling and such), I had to grab a Vista driver package off of Toshiba's
site. There wasn't one for my specific 3 year old model but I got one for
the same type of touchpad (Alps), loaded it, and everything is as it was in
XP now.

Try Dell's site for drivers.

"gliderdriver23" <gliderdriver23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06F64BED-BB44-445C-8E9A-21390ECCD12F@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> I'm having a problem trying to turn off the tapping function of the touch
> pad
> in MS Vista... I have a Dell Inspiron 1715 laptop that was running MS XP
> and
> I just upgraded to MS Vista Home Premium Edition.
>
> I can't figure out how to turn of the "tapping" feature on the touch pad.
> It
> was easy on XP
> - control panel -mouse-divices -touch pad..and just turn it off. No such
> control can I find in Vista once you get to the mouse section under
> control
> panel. It drives me crazy...do I just have to live with this or is there a
> "switch" that I'm unaware of?[/color]