Acer Aspire One - Random Touchpad/Mouse Clicks I just purchased an Acer Aspire One and I love the computer except for one annoyance. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own. It randomly "clicks" while I'm typing, browsing, etc.My older Dell laptop occasionally does the same thing, but not nearly as much. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so, is there an easy fix? (Other than return/exchange.)Thank you for your time. Acer Aspire One - Random Touchpad/Mouse Clicks I just purchased an Acer Aspire One and I love the computer except for one annoyance. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own. It randomly... » Read More Acer Aspire One - Random Touchpad/Mouse Clicks I just purchased an Acer Aspire One and I love the computer except for one annoyance. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own. It randomly "clicks" while I'm typing, browsing, etc.My older Dell laptop occasionally does the same thing, but not nearly as much. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so, is there an easy fix? (Other than return/exchange.)Thank you for your time. « Show Less
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I am having problems with my touchpad as well. Hopefully someone has some answers. :(
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My daughter just got an Acer Aspire One 10" and the left-click doesn't work at all. The fact that a nice little optical mouse is included makes me think acer doesn't trust the quality of its touch pad.Other then that, easily circumvented, problem, it's a pretty neat machine.
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Hello. I have had my Acer Aspire One 10" for a few months. Has been fine until recently, the touch pad works for navigating, clicking. But the scroll function along the right and top of the touch pad have stopped working!!! Anybody know how to fix this problem? Thanks!
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Since I am a confirmed mouser, I do not use the touchpad. M. Goldman is correct the touchpad is touchy. I find it helps to disable the touchpad by holding down the Fn key and hitting the F7 to disable the touchpad. If not I find myself sometimes hitting the touchpad when I hit the space bar. This can cause some confusion until you realize what is going on.
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Hasn't happened to me. Occasionally it would make the cursor jiggle a little when I'm hovering the pen so I turned off touch gestures. This is because I have a laptop and I just alternate between the touchpad and the tablet. Personal preference.
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no problem with the touchpad. I'm very happy with Adesso products .... i have a couple of their keyboards.... and they are fantastic
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I have the Acer Aspire One AO722 and do not have that problem. It is of course a slightly different model, however I believe both have the same multi-gesture pad. Full disclosure: I am far from an expert!
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I've had this happen on other non-Acer computers and the only thing I can attribute it to is programs running in the background take an active blip for a second, thus causing the cursor to move/disappear. Then, I must shake the mouse, or tap the pad, to resume control of the cursor.
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I really liked everything about this laptop; size, speed, looks... EXCEPT the touch pad. Prior to purchase I had read that some people had trouble with the touch pad but everything else looked good so I decided to take a chance. Unfortunately, very soon after purchase the touch pad started acting wonky and just got worse with time. IF you are someone that uses a mouse with a laptop and this is the screen size you are looking for, then YES, I would say it would be a good replacement. I prefer Windows 7 over Vista and again, the speed on this machine is great.
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This looks like this only has one trackpad button (presumably the left)...is that the case? I can't find the spec on Amazon or on Acer's website.
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I have not encountered the problem of the touchpad, Can you elaborate point?Move the mouse or gesture is not responding?would you ever connected to the official website updated driver?after my operating system installation finished, the machine automatically connected with the official website of a major update, I do not know whether I can help you.
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The touchpad works as a clickpad. To left click you can either tap the touchpad, or you can press down and click the entire touch surface to perform a left click.I havn't had a chance to actually confirm this (I'll do so tomorrow when I have a chance) but the intuitive thing that I'm very sure I've done in the past in order to right click is to either tap or click in the in the lower right corner of the touchpad. The touchpad is very responsive and responds very well to either clicks or gestures. It's on par with the best laptop touchpads I've used.
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If you are referring to the touchpad there is a feature called palm rejection and you adjust the sensitivity. It seems to be pretty smart and that if you slide your palms on the touch pad it minimizes movement of the pointer. My favorite trick though is to use a USB mouse, and then change the setting that disables the touchpad while mouse is active. It allows me to use a regular mouse but if unplug and need to use my laptop to do something really quick i can either use the touch screen or unplug the usb key and then the touchpad is active right away, plug the usb key back in and the touchpad automatically turns off. It even has a nice amber light to remind you the touchpad is inactive.
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mine does also for about 5 seconds then returns to normal... i think it's a problem that every iconia has, however i have noticed that my INTEL turbo metre goes up when the random mouse clicking happens
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The touchpad seems ultra sensitive to me, but then this is my first laptop so I have nothing to compare it to. I have a wireless mouse also that I use sometimes.
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They run a little hot,and after switching tabs a few times the screen would start to flicker i was putting it on a test run(you only have 15 days to return electronics and wanted to see if it could handle the work load and that's what i came up with so i returned it,and got another brand) on gateways behave it may have just be a bad laptop that got through but i wasn't going to try another one.I also believe gateway was recently purchased by "Acer" and is not a bad brand I have a "e-machines" laptop that is also made by "Acer" and haven't had any problems with it (it's about 4 years old now)So it may just be the manufacturer when i tried the gateway it was still under gateway maybe Acer will do a better job. They run a little hot,and after switching tabs a few times the screen would start to flicker i was putting it on a test run(you only have 15 days to return electronics and wanted to see if it could handle the work load and that's what i came up with so i returned it,and got another brand) on gateways behave it may have just be a bad laptop that got through but i wasn't going to try another one.I also believe gateway was recently purchased by "Acer" and is not a bad brand I have a "e-machines" laptop that is also made by "Acer" and haven't had any problems with... » Read More They run a little hot,and after switching tabs a few times the screen would start to flicker i was putting it on a test run(you only have 15 days to return electronics and wanted to see if it could handle the work load and that's what i came up with so i returned it,and got another brand) on gateways behave it may have just be a bad laptop that got through but i wasn't going to try another one.I also believe gateway was recently purchased by "Acer" and is not a bad brand I have a "e-machines" laptop that is also made by "Acer" and haven't had any problems with it (it's about 4 years old now)So it may just be the manufacturer when i tried the gateway it was still under gateway maybe Acer will do a better job. « Show Less
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I haven't had any problems with my touchpad. And I've had my ENVY laptop for about a year or so.
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It clicks, which I find annoying. However, if one is mechanically inclined it's easy to remedy. Remove the 2 screws in the battery compartment. Pop open the mouse. Locate the spring on the side of the scroll wheel and remove it with needle nose pliers. Pop mouse back together and replace the 2 screws, enjoy scrolling as smooth as butter. WARNING: this will certainly void any warranty and YMMV. ;-)
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You are probably brushing the touchpad. You might be able to find a setting to disable the touchpad while you are typing. Personally, I always use a mouse and disable the touchpad (mainly because of this problem)
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I also just bought the laptop and I am hearing this weird clicking sounds constantly! I called tech support and they said it was part of the HDD Protection Settings, so I turned it off and the noise stopped briefly but came back. I think I will have to call again because this is noisier than the 2007 laptop I had before. If it doesn't stop I will return the laptop.