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April 14th, 2009 16:00
Reprogramming shortcut keys for touchpad on Latitude E4300
I need help with the touchpad-mouse on the Latitude E4300. I love touchpads! But with this new laptop I am inadvertently doing something with the touchpad combined with keyboard that results in (seemingly sporadic) changes to the screen. E.g., suddenly the line i'm typing is "centered," or a new browser window opens, or the find/replace-edit dialog box appears.
What settings I've checked already to no avail via Control Panel:
- Keyboard
- Mouse,
- Peripheral Pen, and
- Touchpad settings
Does anyone have a clue where to find the specification and definition of these combinations? If i just knew what i was doing to cause it, I might be able to change what i'm doing!
Much appreciated, all! (I think we all agree that Dell will be no help whatsoever.)
NN
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maniac_lrsc
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April 21st, 2009 06:00
Hello, i have the same symptoms here like described above, plus following problems:
- delay when using the touchpad (ca. 200ms, didn't experience that with any other touchpad i used before). Minimizing Buffer size and rising resolution did not help.
- i reposition the cursor during typing unintentionally by touching the touchpad with my palm. I set the touchpad sensitiveness to a level i nearly couldn't move the cursor anymore, but no success, the cursor was still unintentionally repositioned.
- when marking text e.g. in an email, the cursor movement sometimes stops although i keep on moving my finger (repetitive)
Dell Support changed my touchpad hardware, but still the same problems.
Does anybody know if there will be a new touchpad driver or firmware to meet these problems?
Best regards,
Michael
wilsondmw
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January 31st, 2010 13:00
Did anyone figre out how to get the touchpad disabled? This is very frustrating to have it jump around so much when typing....
lmtdragon2000
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March 21st, 2010 09:00
Were you able to get any help on this item? I am having the same issues.
shanmuha
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March 30th, 2010 15:00
Me too. exactly the same symptoms. there seems to be no touch pad driver settings...
NewNashvillian
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March 30th, 2010 17:00
Hi -- the only thing i could do was jsut to set the sensitivity way up.... (i.e., not sensitive) and I got used to it more... I never got any answers from Dell or the discussion post.
thanks for validating the question, though!
New Nashvillian
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June 21st, 2010 09:00
I found the touchpoint controls by clicking the mouse icon in the control panel. If an external mouse is not connected and you mouse over it using your touchpad, the window changes from standard mouse controls to touchpad controls. I was then able to take care of some nagging touchpad settings.
Hope it works for you.