I liked your first one better. 
Yes you can. I’m on a Toshiba right now, and admittedly I remember it took a while for me to find it, but I was able to disable it. Keep looking, I promise it’s there.
JKellyMap: Somewhere in the list of Auto-Correct options, is “indig” set to be replaced with “indigo”? If you can find that (Tools - AutoCorrect Options) and delete it, the problem may go away.
Most of the computer complaints in this thread can actually be turned off completely. You don’t want Word to automatically capitalize the first letter of a new sentence? Turn it off in AutoCorrect. You don’t like the Paper clip? Turn it off in the Help menu. You can even delete AutoCorrect entries you don’t like and add your own.
Car smartness is beyond me, though.
I drive a Mazda MPV 2000 mini-van. And I live in an area where it is actually below freezing outside several times each winter, often accompanied by snow or ice or freezing rain. There were a couple of times this winter when I had to drive to work (in the dark) with the floor cabin lights on. I take my son to school every morning. The passenger doors tend to freeze mostly shut very easily, so when I try to open my son’s door after it has been cold and humid, the door is frozen too shut to open. But it “disengages” enough so that the stupid car thinks the door is open, and because it is too frozen to open, I can’t completely close it again, either. I can NOT convince the car that the door is really closed. However, the car has been programmed to believe that if a door is open (even when the car is in motion and all doors are locked), the cabin lights should be on. I can turn off the ceiling dome lights, but the floor lights in the door are controlled completely by the car. The car turns them off after about 30 seconds, but if I go over even a small bump, the car wakes up, realizes that a door is “open”, and the floor lights go on again.
The reverse is also true. Sometimes I need to have the cabin lights on at night when I am sitting in or cleaning out the car. If the car has been turned off for a minute or so, the cabins lights turn themselves off. I have to close every freaking door in the car, then reopen a door to get the lights to come back on again for another minute. An older car we had did occasionally run down the battery because a door was left open, so I understand the purpose. But it would be very nice to have some way of leaving the lights on when we intend to remain in the vehicle.
Yet another kvetching MS Wierd user. The best advice I have for that Clippit annoyance is to drive a stake through it’s non-existent heart, turn it OFF!
Otherwise, thanks, but I don’t need the computer to automatically correct paragraph styles for me. When I click “View Header,” I would, er, like to see the header for the page I’m on.
Tools, Auto Correct, then either uncheck the last box, or delete “indig/indigo” from the list at the bottom.
At one time, business people claimed to be motivated by the satisfaction of a job well done, a chance to exercise their skills, and /or the opportunity to enrich the lives of their customers, among other things.
I don’t know if those claimed motivations were really true, but it’s certainly true that “maximum money is the only logical goal” is only one way of looking at business and life in general.
Sailboat
Does your laptop have a touchpad? If you tap the touchpad just right, it interprets that as a click. There may be an icon (usually rectangular) down next to your clock to configure the touchpad settings. Disable the touchpad mouse-click if you can.
I hate the new car stereos. I don’t want to have to navigate menus to adjust the bass, treble, and fader. Give me little pop-out knobs like my older cars had. I also want a real VOLUME KNOB, not + and - buttons, and not a thing that looks like a knob but really just samples the spinning and won’t work if you spin too fast.
Another counter-car intelligence agent checking in.
I drive a 2000 Ford Taurus that insisted on beeping when I didn’t belt in. I live in a small town and some drives down a dirt road for a brief trip do not require seatbelts (it’s in the town charter 
).
Turning off the feature was a 12 step process that included clicking the seat belt three times, waiting three seconds then clicking three times again, but only once the planets aligned with some mystical nebula on the andromeda galaxy.
If I don’t want to wear my seatbelt, I’ll take it up with the local officers of the peace and in case of an accident, my insurance company.
Lies.
Okay, in all seriousness, they payed* (and still do pay) some attention to those things in the pursuit of making HUGE PILES OF MONEY!!one! By giving good service to their customers, they increase customer loyalty and get free advertising through word-of-mouth. But the company does not “care” about you, other than you brain (for the market research) and your wallet. The company never cared about you- if it had, it would have been outcompeted by ruthlesser companies and driven into the ground. Oh, it may give every appearance of caring about you, as long as that increases its profit margin. Furthermore, the individuals who are in the company’s employ may (occasionally) care about you- but that is not Company Policy.
*Payed? Paught? I don’t want to go into the passive tense.
I hate the fact that it sometimes takes forever for Windows Explorer to come up on my laptop. And why? Because some of my folders have a great many graphics files (all clean and mostly work-related, I assure you), and Windows Explorer feels that it must traverse the directory tree and pre-digest these files so that it can display some nifty thumbnail images… y’know, just in case I should decide to open the folders in question.
Bloody wankers. If I want to view the thumbnail images, I’ll let you know! Until then, don’t waste my bloody time!
JThunder, click the “View” icon on the Explorer menubar and select “Tiles” instead of “Thumbnails”.
Or, since you’re already in there, why not replace indig / indigo with indig / indigenous. Then AutoCorrect would be doing a good thing.
After 32.4 seconds of searching, I am pretty sure it is called “dwell time”.
I think it’s called “Hovering” on the Compaq laptop I recently bought. I agree with previous posters who said to check out the touchpad icon in the lower-right corner and poke around there.
Toshiba help and support = 0 results. But thanks anyway.
I’ve fiddled with the touch pad settings before. That’s where I solved the problem of my touchpad interpreting a tap as a click. Still can’t get it to quit double clicking for me.
:sigh:
It is off … at my workstation. But I had to use another coworker’s computer recently when there was maintenance work going on in my quad. My coworker uses the paper clip and I wasn’t going to change her settings.
Lisa:
If you leave the switch for adjusting the mirrors in the “adjust passenger mirror position” ie the non-default position, the passenger mirror doesn’t “bow down” when you put the car in reverse. The point of the “magical moving mirrors” is to help when curb parking your car; something many suburbanites never do. 
Maybe you know the answer to this… I can turn off most of MSword’s “smart” features, like quotes and elipsis replacement, but for the life of me I can’t find an option that’ll make it stop replacing the regular short hyphen with an elongated one. Any clue where that turn off is hiding?
Insert > Autotext > Autotext (from the popup menu) > Autoformat > Hyphens