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Can touchpad settings be locked, or saved?
(Firstly: those whose jerk reaction to anything about touchpads is to
say "I hate them, I turn them off and plug in a real mouse" - _please_ don't bother!) The touchpad designers (well, of the driver for them) have kindly made it rather easy to change how they behave. Unfortunately, some aspects are _too_ easy to trigger. I have at least two: Occasionally, I find I can only move the pointer horizontally or vertically (not diagonally). I'm pretty sure this is triggered by some action on my part. I can usually return it to normal by scribbling with Ctrl pressed. Today, the gain has reduced (or precision increased): I have to do a lot more sliding to achieve the same screen movement than I usually do. Again, I'm fairly sure this is due to something I've done. (Can't seem to restore it though [haven't tried a reboot] - even delving in and changing scroll speed.) Is there any way of _preventing_ these changes, i. e. turning off whatever it is that makes them easy to do? Or, a way of saving current settings that is relatively easy to restore? (Easier, that is, than Start, Settings, Control Panel, Mouse, Device Settings, Settings, now-which-setting-do-I-play-with.) FWIW Synaptics touchpad driver V7.4 under W7-32, though I'm pretty sure I still got them (can't remember driver version), at least the X-Y one, when I was on XP. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Who were your favourite TV stars or shows when you were a child? Sadly they've all been arrested ... Ian Hislop, in Radio Times 28 September-4 October 2013 |
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