Laptop Typing

Sometimes when I type the cursor jumps to a previous spot on my page. Since I am not a touch typist, I may not notice this for a bit.  Now I have to go back and retype a lot of words.

How aggravating!

It is aggravating, but the fix is easy.  Just turn off the touchpad while typing.

My laptop will allow me to disable the touchpad by ‘tapping’ in the upper left corner, but it sometimes takes a lot of tapping.

There are several utilities that can help with this if your computer doesn’t have the settings to allow you to turn it off. On my laptop there is a small program named Synaptics that resides in the Control panel and can be accessed by clicking ‘Mouse’.



I can either turn the touchpad off temporarily  or disabling it altogether. Since I always use a mouse I choose to disable it.

You can also access the Touchpad settings by going to show the hidden icons on the Desktop: Click that tiny up arrow to see what’s there.

Click the red Snaptics icon to open the dialog in the Control Panel and choose your settings.  You can also make changes to your cursor, how fast and which to use here.





For more options on disabling the touchpad, look at Gismo’s site.