[AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

[Bill Bruer]

If I remember correctly, options for the touchpad are found in the Control 
Panel & Mouse properties.  You can adjust the sensitivity of the touchpad. 
That may help.  I think there are also other options for the touchpad that 
can be set or adjusted, including disabling it.

Bill Bruer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Drag line engine ID wanted


I've thought about that Howard and try to be very careful not to touch it
but still it could be the problem.  My old notebook had a similarly placed
touch pad and I never had a problem with it.
I think what is happening is I am hitting the function or control key with
the side or palm of my hand and then the next key stroke opens a shortcut
that does something I don't want to do.
However, I'm not used to using the secondary keyboard functions, don't know
they work or how to disable them so I'm not sure.  All I know is it is a big
pain.  I touch type, not too accurately sometimes but at a fair speed so
when it happens, it happens so fast that I can't react to it.  Sometimes
I'll be typing and all of a sudden the cursor is somewhere else in the
paragraph or maybe even in the address line.  Sometimes half a paragraph or
the whole copy turns blue, meaning it has been selected for some action but
I don't know how it's happening.

Charlie

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From: "Howard Fleming" <hfleming at moosebird.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:25 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Drag line engine ID wanted

> On 11/17/2010 08:34, charlie hill wrote:
>> Hopefully one day prior to my throwing this new notebook computer in the
>> river, I will figure out why it decides to send e-mails while I'm still
>> typing them.<snip>
>
> If you have a touch pad on your laptop, I suspect that might be your
> problem (ask me how I know.... :o).  Just brushing the top of it is
> enough to cause interesting problems while typing.
>
> Howard
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