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Notebooks and autoclick =\

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SinfulWeeper

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Title says it all. Nothing drives me more nuts than my notebook opening up a program icon or clicking on a web link without actually clicking on the link. Anybody know how to stop this... it is the most god aweful stupidest thing ever and it is driving me to severe distraction :|
 
If my mouse pointer so much as goes over a icon, or web link.... it 'clicks' and lanches it withought me actually even clicking on the stuff to launch them. It does it automatically.
 
this must be the tap click feature. You turn it off in the Mouse Properties (assuming you're using Windows). Can't remember where though.
 
This problem might actually be a combination of the tap-to-click feature of the touchpad (They do it with the little trackpoints, too.) and the dumb Windows Explorer feature that causes apps to launch with a single click. That option can be changed from single click to double click on the General tab of the Folder Options dialog.

And, yes, enabling tap-to-click by default on touchpads and trackpoints is really, really, really stupid. I've seen some touchpad systems that were so sensitive that they made the initial OS installation very hard to get through (without making lots of choices you really didn't want to make). After an OS installation on any notebook the first thing I do is to install the blasted touchpad / trackpoint drivers and turn off tap-to-click. I've even written letters to Alps and Synaptic about this. No response. Jerks.
 
I've personally never encountered an overly sensitive tapping on a touchpad. If anything, most touchpads by default move too slow for me.

Regardless, it sounds like your issue is probably the single click setting jay mentioned. Open a folder, go to Tools-->Folder Options, on the first tab that comes up towards the bottom you will see the option.
 
Yup. Cursor movement is too slow at the default settings for my taste on all touchpads. It's barely adequate when I crank the speed all the way up and set acceleration to maximum, too. But the tap-to-click feature drives me nuts. If I want to click on an item I'll use a button. The closest thing to a useful tap-to-click I've seen is the one on my Dell M70. But I still turn the feature off.
 
It was/is on the double click feature... it is really driving me nuts. lmao

Here is what it does. If my curser, take for instance goes over my heatware link without me even clicking the thing, it sends me to that web page. Of it goes over the my computer icon (or any other icon for that matter) it launches it... there was a option enabled to view my desktop as a web page... I disabled it. I have not used the laptop since changing that feature. It is just too frustrating to use. I also ordered another keyboard/mouse to see if that fixxes the problem. Be a shame if it does... cause I really need the laptop for mobility... not pulling my hair out. I'll post an update when I use it again.
 
Perhaps you should also go through your Mouse settings under the Control Panel, specifically the Synaptics (assuming you have that brand touchpad) settings area. Sounds like your touch sensitivity may we way up as well

Did you disable the single-click setting?
 
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