[Tfug] Laptop Mouse weirdness

[Adrian]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, you wrote:
> Keith,
> 
> I'd bet dollars-to-donuts that when you're typing your thumbs are
> occasionally touching the mousepad registering accidental clicks.  I do the
> same thing on my laptop.  You can either disable the mousepad and use a real
> mouse (it's an option in the BIOS on my laptop) or move the mouse pointer on
> top of the titlebar for the window you're typing in so that the click
> doesn't do anything but focus the window you're already in.
> 
I do the same thing, but with the inside edge of my palms on the mousepad. It's
really annoying and changing click/double-click response doesn't seem to help.

Adrian
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- I just tried this on my old Packard Bell 486/66 w/4MB (Hey ...
- shut-up! I was young, ignorant, and didn't know anything about
- hardware or quality manufacturers.).