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dringbloom

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October 18th, 2005 11:00

Missing touchpad tab on Mouse window from control panel

I have an Inspiron 8500 with an Alps touch pad.  The right corner was set for right mouse button.  This just stopped working.  I went to Control Panel/Mouse to reset.  Touchpad tab is missing.  Went to various help panels and verified this is where I set the touchpad settings.  Current driver in Device Manager is 5.4.101.17 - 11/29/02.
 
I downloaded most recent driver from Dell - R89598.exe
 
1.  do I remove old driver or just update on top of it?
2.  Instructions say to install new driver to C:\Dell\Drivers - this folder does not exist.  Dell and Drivers are at same level at root.  Current driver appears to be in apoint folder. 
3.  Anything I need to be careful/watch out for?
 
I have XP SP2. Not aware of any updates that would have caused this, but hard to tell.
 
thanks. 

dringbloom

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October 18th, 2005 11:00

Okay, so I panicked - I rebooted and all seems normal again.  I have all the tabs and the right corner works as expected.  So..should I still update the driver just to have the latest?  I tend to prefer not to make changes if all is working and all is working so...???

thanks

SandyC

189 Posts

December 7th, 2005 23:00

 I am new to laptops and have been trying to figure out how to get the mouse right button functions on the touch pad.  I don't see a setting in the mouse/touchpad control settings. Can you help me, please?

dringbloom

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December 8th, 2005 04:00

Click on Start and then Control Panel

Double Click on Mouse.  You should see several tabs across the top of the Mouse window.

Click on the Gestures Tab

I assigned the shortcut menu to the upper right corner.  Each corner has a drop down list of options that can be assigned.
 
dringbloom

SandyC

189 Posts

December 8th, 2005 09:00

I finally discovered the touchpad options in the mouse control settings, but I could not find anything that stood out for the right mouse button features. "Short cut menu" just did not click with me until I read your post this morning. Thanks much.

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