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?

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]

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:
[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]

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:
>[color=green]
>> 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]

I have a Sony laptop which uses the Alps driver. Until Sony offers an
update, this worked for me:

[url]http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soid=1603895&moid=1311518&BV_SessionID=@@@@0354884236.1171412040@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccgaddkefiljhdcgfkceghdgngdgnj.0&ct=DL[/url]

After that was installed, Windows Update (optional) found a newer version
from Alps, once it saw I had an Alps touchpad installed (versus the generic
PS/2 one). I installed that, and that works fine too.



"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]

"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]


Sounds like the touchpad driver you have is not the right one.

--
Gary VanderMolen