jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue May 13 09:10:18 CDT 2008
> Arrogance more than idiocy? I am sure that there is plenty of that as well. If you think about it, Windows controls EVERYTHING. It receives click "events" (whatever they may be at that hardware level) and inserts them into the program. Thus there is one single "entry point" into Windows for each IO object out there. Windows is the obvious "choke point" for controlling this kind of thing. Instead you are left with "on MY laptop you do this" and on "THAT laptop you do that". Instead of one single place to go to set this up, you have 100 million lap top users searching the web for how to turn the damned thing off ON THEIR hardware. What was the quote purportedly from Einstein.. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Peter Brawley wrote: > John > > This old Tosh laptop has a hardware panel that disables the Touchpad. > Good thing too, since after a couple of years the touchpad became a > random pointing device. No such OS-independent panel in your laptop. > > >Microsoft must hire a special brand of idiots. > >Nobody's idiots can match Microsoft's idiots. > > Arrogance more than idiocy? > > PB > > ----- > > jwcolby wrote: >> Microsoft must hire a special brand of idiots. >> >> I am not finding ANY way to turn off the touchpad in Vista. I have a >> bluetooth mouse which is what I use. The touchpad is still enabled, and >> even worse is set to use a tap as a mouse click, so my thumb is always >> touching the touchpad as I type and the mouse gets moved off to >> someplace where it is not supposed to be. >> >> In XP you could simply select the touchpad and disable it. Vista >> apparently thinks the touchpad is so critical that they completely >> prevent you from disabling it without uninstalling the driver (which I >> am about to do). >> >> I NEED THIS TURNED OFF, but it would be nice to be able to get it back >> if I ever need to use my laptop without the mouse. >> >> I went out and found a driver specifically for the touchpad but even >> that does not (AFAICT) allow you to just disable the damned thing. >> >> Does anyone know how to just disable the damned thing? >> >> Microsoft must hire a special brand of idiots. Nobody's idiots can >> match Microsoft's idiots. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >