Sensitivity of the touchpad to high - What is it?
A Kobold with IT experience can probably be ruled out. The Problem is mostly the fact that the input sensitivity of the laptop touchpad is set too sensitive. In many Laptops there is a special driver (such as the "Synaptics TouchPad"), on the sensitivity rules can be, to work around the Problem. This application you will find often in the System Tray (bottom right).
You can reduce the sensitivity of the Laptop Touchpad
- Such a driver does not exist, it is part of the Touchpad as a standard PS/2 mouse to the System.
- In this case, a right-click on the Icon "my computer" and then in the context menu, the option "properties, it helps more".
- Then the dialog box "system properties" opens. Here click on the tab "Hardware" and then the Button "device Manager".
- In the window "device Manager", the entry "mouse and other pointing devices", revealed after double-clicking the Touchpad as a PS/2-compatible mouse.
- With the help of a right-clicks on this entry, you may enter the properties of the touchpad and under the "Advanced settings" on the Option "sampling rate". Here you reduce the degree of sensitivity of the touchpad.