HP laptop touchpad

[Nick Kay]

On my HP laptop's touchpad there is a section on the right with a set of white marks

When you touch this area it acts as a "scroll" command - much the same as the centre wheel on a mouse

Does anyone know of any way this can be disabled?
- I've tried the mouse configuration but no reference to it there
- its ****ing annoying when you use the touchpad and instead of moving the pointer to scroll the page

[Nick Kay]

Just heard from HP's automated support

You can't disable the touchpad scroll feature

So, now where's the ducktape?

[Howard Payne]

I've got the same - the porn just won't keep still will it? Just bought a wireless mouse which solves the problem and is way better than that touchpad anyway?

[Hellenic Diver]

uninstall the drivers - if that fails ebuild the laptop, and dont install any hp mouse or touchpad drivers

[Muzzer]

Can't say this for sure, as I don't have an HP laptop but most modern machines (including the Dell I'm typing this on) use touchpads made by (or at least compatible with) Synaptics. The synaptics driver adds a new tab (device settings) to the control panel dialogue box that, amongst other things, allows you to enable or disable by clicking on "settings" you can enable/disable the "virtual scrolling" option.
The synaptics driver is available here: Synaptics :: Drivers

HTH
Steve

[Arfie]

On mine, if you go into control panel > Mouse there is then a tab marked "gestures" within there are a couple of tickboxes marked "Use vertical scroll" and "use horizontal scroll" just untick them

But I have no idea why you'd switch them off, once you get it mastered it's great, no problems with the porn

Arfie

[Steven]

Originally Posted by Muzzer

Can't say this for sure, as I don't have an HP laptop but most modern machines (including the Dell I'm typing this on) use touchpads made by (or at least compatible with) Synaptics. The synaptics driver adds a new tab (device settings) to the control panel dialogue box that, amongst other things, allows you to enable or disable by clicking on "settings" you can enable/disable the "virtual scrolling" option.
The synaptics driver is available here: Synaptics :: Drivers

HTH
Steve

hi
I use this (synaptics pointer) and have the same problem
I try to disable the scrolling down and it doesn't make any difference - oh my laptop is dell
any advice would be welcome

Steven

[Nick Kay]

Originally Posted by Hellenic Diver

uninstall the drivers - if that fails ebuild the laptop, and dont install any hp mouse or touchpad drivers

Unfortunately, its a work laptop and doing such a thing would mean being visited by the IT police

Checked the driver and its a Microsoft one - so its probably all Bill Gate's fault (again)

[desertrat]

Do you have a small red icon on your system tray (next to the clock) it's a red square with a white circle in it but the circle is a bit wiggly?

[Arfie]

Did my previous suggestion not work?

I have also just looked on my Acer laptop which runs Vista and again, you go to Control Panel>Mouse then "Device Settings" tab. Selected the Synaptics touchpad and hit settings and there is another tab marked "Virtual Scrolling" and you can untick vertical and horizontal in there.

Arfie