There is no touchpad section of my mouse control panel, either the snazzy new-ish (win7+) one or the old classic windows XP-style mouse settings tabbed property sheet. This is Win10 on a Surface Pro 7 with the TypePad keyboard.
Within Settings, the general search function for “touchpad” returns links to the mouse-related items I’ve already found. Which don’t include a “disable touchpad for [ x ] time while typing”.
Do you have any more advice on where this might be found?
If it’s being delivered via Canada Post, it’s likely delayed because of the ongoing strike.
Don’t order anything online that you need or expect to get prior to the holidays until it gets resolved. I plan to do all my shopping in store this year.
In this area Amazon hasn’t used Canada Post in many years. The shipping is via Amazon’s own delivery service. I suspect the package got lost or misplaced somewhere along the way and the bastards would rather try to find it than expedite a replacement from existing inventory.
For a Surface, the best I can find is:
Touchpad > Taps > Sensitivity
Turn the sensitivity down and it might help.
I usually support Dell systems as a professional and the systems I support come with a “disable while typing” option; for some reason Microsoft doesn’t seem to provide that for a Surface.
Thanks for trying.
Are you using an external mouse such that you’d preferably disable the touchpad altogether? A quick look at my Dell laptop with Windows 7 Pro shows nothing unique to the touchpad, just generic “Mouse” settings, yet I’m certain that in the past I’ve disabled the internal touchpad and buttons. I suspect that there may be an option in the BIOS to do that if totally disabling is the intent.
Or Device Manager.
In my case I don’t use any external mouse. The touchpad built into the keyboard is it. For whatever reason there’s simply no control panel section that addresses the touchpad as a component of the keyboard or as a weird sort of mutant mouse.
Maybe, but that could potentially disable the same driver used for an external mouse, too.
Back in my day, with Real Computers™, drivers were often structured as two discrete layered components, a port driver and a class driver. To use the example of something like a mouse, the port driver would be responsible for handling the specific hardware interface, while the class driver would handle the generic functions like sensitivity, pointer type, etc. I don’t know how Windows structures its drivers.
In Win10/11, Touchpad will show up as a distinct device you can disable and it won’t affect an external mouse.
I wish to announce that I’ve just taken out some garbage. It included two plastic trays formerly containing cabbage rolls in tomato sauce, one consumed yesterday, one tonight. Normally I’d rinse them in the sink and recycle them, but fuck that noise. I’m done forever with flushing things down the sink. Along with them went all the remaining jars of expired pasta sauce, some full, the ones having caused the extensive plumbing disaster still partially full. Out they go. Never again.
I’m now actually rather irrationally paranoid about what I pour down the sink.
I have plumbing PTSD.
I’d say at this point your paranoia is very rational.
Naah. It’ll take another 20 years of heedless excess sent down his shiny new pipes before the gunk accumulates enough to cause the next problem. Just like it took 20 years’ accumulation last time.
Difference is, this time our dear pup won’t live another 20 years, or at least not in that house. A stay at Geezer Acres patiently awaits us all.
As long as it’s not the pet sematary it’ll all be ok.
And just like that, November gone. Waiting the new Dec one; I cannot think of a clever title
Not sure if I did either but I tried.
You did fine.
Maybe we should ask if a mod could add ….”humbug!” on to the title line so we’d have …blah, blah (December rants) humbug!
Heh, it was supposed to be a pun on “Here Comes Santa Claus”.
Ho ho ho? No no no
I get notices every few months about accessing a website from a new location, requiring some sort of verification (if only an e-mail notification saying to contact them if it wasn’t me). My ISP seems to periodically shift servers around to different locations in the GTA (or a couple of times to Montreal, which caused problems when dealing with Ontario government sites that wanted to make absolutely sure you were an Ontario resident).
That is incorrect, oh noble three-lettered guy. The kitchen drain was always very free-running, which is why I got careless about what I poured down until I tried it with this accursed sauce.
And now you’re getting downright morbid. I’m actually quite a young pup if you divide my age by 7. I believe some such factor is used to convert between dog years and human years, though I may have the math wrong or the species mixed up. 
The simple conversion also doesn’t account for the health-giving effects of a constant diet of Caesars, providing in a single beverage the benefits of vegetables, seafood, and ethanol. This is why, if you look at life expectancy stats, Canadians live longer than Americans, who for some reason shun this beloved life-giving elixir.