Your laptop's touchpad is a convenient substitute for carrying a mouse, but it can easily get in the way of typing. Brush it with your hand, and you can find that the cursor has moved, resulting in ...

Few experiences in life are more infuriating than finding that you've typed four kinds of gibberish because you brushed your touchpad, moving the cursor as you worked. You have a few options: Toss ...

The freeware TouchFreeze utility monitors the system while running in the system tray, and automatically disables the touchpad on detecting keyboard activity. The software applications included with ...

Recently two of my relatives complained of the same maddening problem: They’d be typing along on their laptops when suddenly the cursor would jump, resulting in garbled text or even an unwanted ...

The touchpad or trackpad on a laptop keyboard is convenient to use when you're on the road or sitting in a tight space. Those tiny tables in coffee shops and airports don't leave a lot of room for a ...

Learn how to create a shortcut that opens your mouse properties to the dialog that lets you change your touch pad's settings. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...