The touchpad or trackpad on a laptop keyboard is convenient to use when you're on the road or sitting in a tight space. Those tiny tables in coffee shops and airports don't leave a lot of room for a ...

Your laptop's touchpad is a convenient substitute for carrying a mouse, but it can easily get in the way of typing. Brush it with your hand, and you can find that the cursor has moved, resulting in ...

Few experiences in life are more infuriating than finding that you've typed four kinds of gibberish because you brushed your touchpad, moving the cursor as you worked. You have a few options: Toss ...

Learn how to create a shortcut that opens your mouse properties to the dialog that lets you change your touch pad's settings. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

Q: My main computer is a laptop, and it has a built-in touchpad. However, I prefer my wireless mouse, and the touchpad has become a major nuisance. Every time my hand accidentally brushes over the pad ...

Q: I have a Microsoft Surface Pro with a detachable keyboard. I also use a mouse for navigating the screen. My problem is that when I select a point on the screen with the mouse and then go to the ...

A. Most Windows laptops seem to come with this "tap-to-click" feature enabled on their touchpads. If you find that this leads you to click when you don't want to, you can turn it off -- after taking a ...

This program was designed to stop you from accidentally hitting your laptop/netbook's trackpad with your thumbs while you are typing. However, this program didn't really work for me—I still ...

Let us start with the simplest of the two. We will see how you can disable the option as it is enabled on your system by default. Windows Settings is a graphical interface where you can disable the ...

A laptop's touchpad is highly customizable, and it enables a mobile professional to get work done without needing a flat surface for an attachable mouse. By default, Windows 7 sets the touchpad and ...