Is it easy to disable the touchpad and just use a mouse? (With my current Toshiba Satellite it's impossible to disable the touchpad.)
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On the Acer, the command to disable the touch pad is Function key(FN) in blue color and the F7 key. On the Lenovo it is a special function you turn off in Control Panel. Windows 8.1 also has a couple of add-on software apps that perform this function. Hope this helps you. On laptops the touch pad is a pain for those of us who have big thumbs.
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Yes. If u wanna turn off touchpad, u must go to the bios (then the laptop is loading, press F2), go to advanced -> internal mouse -> disable.=)
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Rarely, if ever. Besides, you can turn off the touchpad if it bothers your typing. I believe there might be an option to adjust the sensitivity of the touchpad as well.
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I find it frustrating for simple desktop use. It will sometimes click things when you don't want it to. It's not precise or very accurate. It sometimes goes off on its tangent i.e it'll drift to the edge for no reason. It's terrible really. Use a mouse it'll cut down on the frustration level immensely. However I will add that as of now the trackpad is officially the only problem I have with it. Fanstastic computer otherwise.
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I use external mouse and am happy with the performance. Moreover, once I got used to the how the Touchpad works, I found that I actually liked and found it intuitive in many ways.
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I am having problems with my touchpad as well. Hopefully someone has some answers. :(
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Yup, works great! I have a new Dell with W8, I disabled the touchpad (just my preference)& it works from a couple o'feet away. I agree with official reviews that this wireless mouse is about the best. Installs just about instantly after plugging in the wireless USB sender.
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Sorry, no touch screen on this particular model. The mouse pad is touch but that should be obvious.
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The laptop does have a touchpad to use as mouse. Use the touchpad along with the touchscreen and you won't miss the mouse.
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If you are referring to the touchpad itself you can try to press the F6 key, that toggles the touchpad on and off. If it is something other than that, We would suggest that you visit our Acer Community website (community.acer.com) for support questions like this. You can join discussions with product specialists and members just like you who are ready to guide you through the process of finding solutions to your issues.
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You will have a very hard time, if like me, your keyboard mouse stops working a month after you start using this particular Toshiba. If it is still within the time period to return it to Amazon, do so. I missed the return date by 2 weeks. Toshiba quality has gone down considerably. Sorry I didn't answer your technical issue more specifically, but when your mouse fails, it will be impossible to do much with your laptop.
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I didn't have a problem with the touch pad. However, I did purchase a mouse to use with it because of the work I do on the laptop.
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It's going to be very difficult using a mouse. I hate touchpads too. When I'm using the FitDeck I read or watch TV.
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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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I think the touchpad is actually better than on most Windows laptops, it's much more like the Mac trackpad. I actually prefer it a lot of the time. But you can use a mouse just fine.
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Yes, we had a problem with the touchpad being pressed while using the keyboard and USB mouse. Fortunately, there is a setting that automatically disables the touchpad whenever a USB mouse is plugged in. Also, we had to disable the Win 8 gestures on the touch pad, because it kept doing weird things like pulling up the Windows 8 sidebar (which we never use).
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Yes, we had a problem with the touchpad being pressed while using the keyboard and USB mouse. Fortunately, there is a setting that automatically disables the touchpad whenever a USB mouse is plugged in.Also, we had to disable the Win 8 gestures on the touch pad, because it kept doing weird things like pulling up the Windows 8 sidebar (which we never use).