I wonder if the Toshiba Alps drivers would load and work correctly on a
Dell?

"jimmuh" <jimmuh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:64DBA837-53ED-4CE3-922A-BDE54E4785CB@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I hope you will pester Dell about this. I have a Precision M70 notebook
>from
> Dell which has the same issue. Its touchpad / stick is made by Alps. No
> Vista-compatible drivers have been made available.
>
> I was elated to find an updated Vista driver for the Synaptic touchpad on
> another notebook, but the ability to turn off tap-to-click was not
> included
> in the driver!
>
> The end result is that both of my notebooks are running Vista, and I have
> had to turn off their touchpads in the BIOS and use USB mice.
>
> Rant: It is REALLY stupid to make tap-to-click the default behavior. The
> ****ed touchpads already come with buttons. Hell, the one on the Dell has
> FOUR buttons! There is no need to give me that many different ways to
> click
> -- especially when, depending upon environmental issues like atmospheric
> moisture content, the touchpad can become so sensitive that it "clicks"
> every
> time you look at it!
>
> "gliderdriver23" wrote:
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>> 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][/color]