Over Sensitive Touchpad + User.....

[Bathsheba]

Please be gentle with me...see above ^ ^.

I'm so sick + tired of my cursor opening nearly everything it hovers over.
Often it acts as if I've right-clicked on something.

I know there's a way of reducing this, but I get so far then I'm stuck.
I've done Control Panel, then Hardware + Sound, then Mouse, then Mouse Pointers, then Buttons.....and after that I'm lost.

Help please. Windows 8.1.

Baths

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[Bathsheba]

....I think the word should be pointer, not cursor....sorry

[Buenchico]

The very first thing I do with a laptop is to plug a mouse into a USB socket!

However the setting for your touchpad's sensitivity might well be within its driver software, rather than within Windows, so that's where I'd start looking. With any version of Windows other than 8/8.1 I'd suggest going to the bottom right hand corner of your screen (possibly via 'Show hidden icons') and looking for an option to open the driver settings. Unfortunately I've no idea how you do the same thing with your version of Windows (because I've never used it).

It might help if you would tell us the make and model of your laptop, please.

[Bathsheba]

HP 15-g094sa 15.g" Laptop-Purple.

That 15" is a surprise,...you'd have thought that these techy folks would have gone metric....;)

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[Bathsheba]

I think the page I get after selecting the "Buttons" tab is the correct one,...it has slidey things I can move, + it mentions Synaptic Pointing Device......

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[Buenchico]

>>>you'd have thought that these techy folks would have gone metric

It's just that the USA (which seems to set the standards for such things) is still living in the dark ages ;-)

A bit of googling suggests that its a Synaptics driver that you need to be configuring. While this refers to Windows 7 it's likely that it should still apply to Windows 8.1:
http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/1014/configure-synaptics-touchpad-settings-windows-7.htm

Good luck!

[Buenchico]

>>>it mentions Synaptic Pointing Device

You found it while I was still googling for it!

[Bathsheba]

Many thanks Chris. Yep,....that looks like page I see. Pity I can't print it out....I haven't introduced my printer to this lappy since I had to restore factory settings a couple of weeks ago :(

Cheers
Baths x x

[Bathsheba]

Oh to Hell with the *** thing....two finger scrolling, pinch zoom, three finger press......I'll do what you first suggested +get a mouse!

Any suggestions re that Chris, or are they all much the same?

Baths x x