You can't find it in help because it has nothing to do with Vista. It is
your touchpad driver options you have to be investigating.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"NEILPH" <NEILPH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05AE7AD6-A409-417F-87E3-D8B27AC5578B@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have Vista Home Premium on a new laptop that has a Synaptic Pointing
>Device
> pad.
>
> Amongst other annoying features [like menu items being automatically
> selected when I hover the pointer over them] I find that the pointer often
> suddenly turns into what looks like a mini-scroll bar. This drives me
> nuts.
> Can I turn it off? I can't find on it Help.
>
> My previous computer was Windows 2000, so this pointer quirk is new too
> me.[/color]