[Shadowtail]

I have a Dell Latitude d630 with Windows Vista Home Ultimate and a PS/2 compatible mouse and no Synaptics drive that i can find. Whenever i type i have problems touching the touchpad which has tap-to-click activated. I cannot find the place to turn it off even after checking many forums on this site and others directing me to different places. So, i am wondering how to turn off the "tap-to-click" feature on the touchpad?

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Should be fairly easy to get to. Just go to control panel>printers and other hardware(in classic view, it should just be mouse)>Mouse>and probably under advanced options tab. On my toshiba laptop it's under advanced and then theres all these options about tap and click and hold down one corner and it'll bring up like my documents and stuff. Lol, you'll probably find it. If you cant, post back and ill research deeper for ya.

-Tony

[IrrevocableXenophile]

Should be fairly easy to get to. Just go to control panel>printers and other hardware(in classic view, it should just be mouse)>Mouse>and probably under advanced options tab. On my toshiba laptop it's under advanced and then theres all these options about tap and click and hold down one corner and it'll bring up like my documents and stuff. Lol, you'll probably find it. If you cant, post back and ill research deeper for ya.

-Tony

[Shadowtail]

I followed the instructions and found the Mouse properties but there isn't a button for "tap-to-click" or any button for advanced properties. I have four tabs at the top "buttons" "Pointers" "pointer options" and "Hardware". Buttons is just switching primary and secondary, double click speed and clicklock. Pointers is just changing the pointer appearance. Pointer options is pointer speed, snap to, and visibility options. Then hardware is just the specifications for the mouse.

[IrrevocableXenophile]

Ok strange.. Go to Control Panel>Performance and Maintenance>System>Hardware tab>and click Device Manager. You should find your touchpad on the screen somewhere. Right click it and click properties. Can you find the enable/disable switch in there?

[Shadowtail]

Alright. At device manage, there is a "mice and other pointing devices tab" so i clicked that. Under that is a PS/2 Compatible mouse. For the properties for that there are four tabs. "general" which just says the device is working. "Driver" where i can get driver details, update the driver *it's fully updated* or unistall the driver. "Details" which has a drop down menu and gives me descriptions of all types of the mouse. And "resources" which has a resource settings box that shows and "IRQ" chip. Below that are two buttons i can't click "Setting based on Current Configurations and a chekc box with "Use Automatic settings" checked with a "Change setting" button next to it. Below that is a 'Conflicting device list" which has "no conflicts".

[IrrevocableXenophile]

Ok, so before when you opened mouse from control panel, was there a device settings tab? If you couldn't find the touchpad in device manager it sounds like you dont have the driver installed. For the time being go back to the mouse option in control panel. Does it look like this? Or do you not have the device settings tab?

You can download it here if you don't.

[Shadowtail]

Ok. My screen didn't have that tab so i downloaded the driver. However, when i open up settings *as shown in the right part of the screen you put the link for* there is only button and overview, no tapping or the other ones.

[IrrevocableXenophile]

Well this is a bummer huh? But I won't give up. Alright, now I'm sure this will work.
Go here and navigate to Input Device Drivers. Expand the + and download the touch pad/pointing stick driver. I'm hopeful!

[Shadowtail]

Alright. I downloaded the driver and it worked perfectly. Thank you very very much for your help!

[IrrevocableXenophile]

No problem, glad I could finally help!
-Tony