temporary annoyance

[ritaxis]

The borrowed laptop I am using until my new machine comes is an Asus windows 8 thing with a touchpad the size of Texas. The touchpad is also more sensitive than you can possibkly imagine. Having my thumbs a quarter inch over the touchpad results in constant extreme inadvertant zoom shifts. This means I am constantly resetting the zoom, and if I am working in Drive, this also inviolves a good chance of having to exit the file and re-enter as zoom shifts frequently cause the cursor to become unlinked,. I mean that the letter you type appears several spaces to the left or right of where you expect it.

So I've taken the wireless mouse from my old system and plugged it in to the Asus. Should solve the problem, yes? No. Now both the mouse and the touchpad are live. I cannot disable the touchpad. The option simply does not exist. There is an option to configure it but it leads to a menu with no options. I could uninstall it but it's not my computer so that's too extreme a step to take. I don't know whether I don't have administrator tools or what because that information is not available in any place that I know to look for it. I have not been able to come up with any keywords to use in the help search box that don't return results having to do with touch screens. Directions online all refer to optons that do no appear on this computer,.

I don't want to spend too much time on this because I'll only have to redo it all with the new computer. So what ends up happening is I keep going off and searching out entertainment instead of working because working is too frustrating with this setup.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

O gads, the hell of windoze 8.

Maybe, if you download, if you can download, the patch that makes it windoze 8.1 that would help. If it is possible to do at all, that is.

Many sympathies and wish had better advice.

Love, c.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

I taped a few layers of clear plastic over my touchpad to make it less sensitive. If yours is sensing heat, then cover it with something thicker and use your other mouse.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Just to check: You've gone to Control Panel > Mouse > Mouse Properties > Hardware, and there wasn't anything you could do there to turn off the Asus Touchpad?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Right. The only option was to uininstall it.

Arriving at the mouse options by way of administrator tools results in a greyed-out "configure" drop-down menu, which mioght have the option to disable if I could access it.

But it's a temporary computer I only have to struggle with for a few more days, so I shouldn't complain.