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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USBmouse is connected?
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Sometimes in traffic, I am a one-finger typist. For that, there's Siri! |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USBmouse is connected?
VanguardLH wrote:
Speed of typing has nothing to do with sensitivity of device. Huh? You're usually on the money, but what I was trying to say was that my hands were physically touching the touchpad while I typed. Sensititivity of a pointing device is irrelevant of your typing speed. Well, the point was that my hands go where my hands go. And, where my hands went, was touching the keypad. That was causing problems. Turning off the keypad solved those problems. Laptop keyboards are NOT designed for fast typists OK. I agree, to a point. They are still QWERTY, which actually was design to slightly slow down certain combinations; but, still, that is exactly the layout that a typist would use (albeit less tactile). They are designed for hunt-and-peck typists. I doubt that's actually true; I think they are designed to be rather compact flat keyboards; which can often cramp a typist's style, depending on how compact they are. I find I can type about 80 wpm on my laptop, and even then, you'll rarely find a typo or spelling (or grammar or punctuation) error in my prosaic posts! The issue is where the touchpad is placed along with the proximity of your palms while you type. Indeed! Laptop keyboards are designed for punching keys versus tapping them. Hmmm... Looking at my hands, as I type on my laptop, my palms are both firmly resting on the laptop. The 8 digits are all resting on the proper keys (with the index finger on the aforementioned marked F & J keys). The thumbs are slightly above the keys, with the right thumb just barely hovering over the space bar with the left thumb at a higher angle, as it appears to be the least-used finger. Have you tried reducing sensitivity of the touchpad to see if the errors diminish or disappear? No. I hate that stinkin' thing. I really do. I use a mouse, so, there's no need for a touchpad anyway. And, it gets in the way of typing. So, turning it off is just fine with me. YMMV |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:25:45 +0000 (UTC), Danny D. wrote:
Gene E. Bloch wrote: Sometimes in traffic, I am a one-finger typist. For that, there's Siri! That's the voice assistant in iOS, right? Does she have a middle finger? -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:23:43 +0000 (UTC), Danny D. wrote:
And, of course, even here, where my word speed is almost as fast as my thoughts ... Same here. Sadly, I'm a very slow typist. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:34:36 +0000 (UTC), Danny D. wrote:
Have you tried reducing sensitivity of the touchpad to see if the errors diminish or disappear? No. I hate that stinkin' thing. I really do. I use a mouse, so, there's no need for a touchpad anyway. And, it gets in the way of typing. So, turning it off is just fine with me. YMMV Arguably, that *is* reducing the sensitivity :-) I'm not a great typist, and maybe I've reduced the sensitivity (I don't recall); anyway, I don't have your problem on the touchpad. I also think that some touchpad makers have figured out ways to detect palm presses and ignore them. There are settings in my laptop with names relating to palm pressing. I can't reasonably turn it on to check - I use it so rarely that the pending updates will take about a week to download & install :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:25:18 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:08:09 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: I'll remain a two-finger typist. It's like learning "vi". You gotta learn it when you're young! It would have been more effort than I was willing to expend but I could have learned it when I was middle-aged. I was on my way there, but I gave it up. |
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:23:43 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote: Ken Blake wrote: Correctly has no real value for me. I'm amazed at how much it helps me, especially when I'm helping my wife write something, she talks, I type, but I keep my eyes on her when she talks as she gets mad otherwise. My wife types with all her fingers. She's much better than I am. Also, it's great for when I'm transcribing. Sure. That's what I said earlier. But I don't transcribe. |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:25:18 +0000 (UTC), Danny D. wrote:
PS: I still use Vi freeware on the Windows pc! You might like Vim (vi Improved) if you try it. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:41:07 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:25:45 +0000 (UTC), Danny D. wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: Sometimes in traffic, I am a one-finger typist. For that, there's Siri! That's the voice assistant in iOS, right? Does she have a middle finger? She has amusing answers to "Where can I bury a dead body?" -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
"Danny D." wrote in message
... On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:08:09 -0700, Ken Blake wrote: I'll remain a two-finger typist. It's like learning "vi". You gotta learn it when you're young! And, it stays with you, for the rest of your life. PS: I still use Vi freeware on the Windows pc! I became quite proficient with vi when it was the only editor on the Unix (BSD and Unixware) that I used as a software developer in the 1990s. I haven't used it much since because a WYSIWYG editor such as PFE (Programmer's Free Editor) is generally quickly as long as you have a mouse to select words, phrases and sentences. For altering the order of complete lines, rather than for editing paragraphs of text, dd v shift-P (I think!) can be quicker. I wish I could find a decent Windows version of grep for pulling out all the lines (maybe with line numbers) from multiple files. It's often quicker to use grep to locate any emails that contain a certain phrase than it is to use Windows Live Mail's Find facilities when you've got many thousands of emails to search through. Unfortunately the version I've got can't handle long file names so it tells me that the match is in 2CD672AE~1.eml and I then have to do a dir /n /x to match that short name to the long name so I know which file to open. I use several fingers on each hand, but not the correct ones by touch-typing rules. My wife types using only the middle finger of each hand, which looks weird. She uses only her middle finger for pressing the on-screen icons on her Android tablet as well. I wish I could type more quickly but having learned by trial and error it would initially be frustrating to have to type more slowly while I was learning to touch type, even if it would benefit me in the long-term. |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USBmouse is connected?
NY wrote:
I wish I could find a decent Windows version of grep for pulling out all the lines (maybe with line numbers) from multiple files. It's often quicker to use grep to locate any emails that contain a certain phrase than it is to use Windows Live Mail's Find facilities when you've got many thousands of emails to search through. Unfortunately the version I've got can't handle long file names so it tells me that the match is in 2CD672AE~1.eml and I then have to do a dir /n /x to match that short name to the long name so I know which file to open. I use the packages from gnuwin32. For some of your Linux/Unix favorites, you have to know which package they're in (i.e. FindUtils has a bunch). And for some, you get an easy ride (package labeled "grep"). http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html The programs consist of a binary and supporting DLLs. The binary must be next to the DLLs, or the %path% variable set up to make it all happen. In the case of the "file" command, the one that identifies file type by content, the library that program uses must be arranged at a specific relative location with respect to the executable. (It's not good enough to put "magic" file next to "file.exe".) So setting those up is the fun part. They do provide complete setup utilities, but after a while, I use the "soup recipe" to "pour them in the bowl I want". In other words, you don't need an installer, if you know what you're doing. If I'm working on a project, I just copy the exe and dll files, into the directory I'm working in. And run Command Prompt from there. The GNU utils aren't perfect. I think the grep one, likes to store stuff in RAM. If you want to grep a file which is 10GB in size on a machine with 2GB of RAM, the program will complain it is "out of memory". This is a far from optimal design optimization, where the software developer didn't use the "out of memory" error to switch back to traditional "piped" operation. These days, one of the biggest questions to ask (in a Windows environment), is whether the thing you're searching for, is in 16 bit Unicode, or regular 8 bit characters. And whether the tool you're using, knows the difference, or searches for both. Just in case you're wondering why the old methods that used to work for searching content, no longer seem to work right. For one little project I was working on, I actually had to write a one-page C program, to do the search for me. And load it with variants on 8 and 16 bit versions of text. And that worked. Paul |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:07:24 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:41:07 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:25:45 +0000 (UTC), Danny D. wrote: Gene E. Bloch wrote: Sometimes in traffic, I am a one-finger typist. For that, there's Siri! That's the voice assistant in iOS, right? Does she have a middle finger? She has amusing answers to "Where can I bury a dead body?" For the first time I'm sorry I don't have an iPhone :-) But I *am* glad that I have access to Google...Lots of hits. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USB mouse is connected?
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:33:14 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote: I can't count the number of times the sensitive touchpad is inadvertently activated while typing, in Windows XP & Windows 7. Is there freeware available that will simply TURN OFF the touchpad when a USB mouse is connected? I guess if not, then is there a SIMPLE way to disable the TOUCHPAD driver when the mouse is attached; and then a simple way to re-enable that touchpad driver when the mouse is not connected? If only there were a way to simply get rid of the damn things and get a point-stick in the middle of the keyboard back...... |
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Is there freeware to turn OFF the sensitive TOUCHPAD when a USBmouse is connected?
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:33:14 +0000, Danny D. wrote:
Is there freeware available that will simply TURN OFF the touchpad when a USB mouse is connected? UPDATE: Here is a visual which shows the trick, using Dell drivers: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7441/9...4ef7f787_o.gif |
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