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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It does click when you scroll but its hardly noticeable. Most of the mice I have used are loud when scroll but this one isn't.
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Yes, it does make noise when you click, because clicking requires a mechanical compression of the click area. (the swipe functions use electrical touch sensing, and it can sense taps, but clicking still requires a physical push down). Its quieter than many mice, but not silent. All mice that use mechanical motion will make some amount of clicking noise. What you want is a "mouse" that has no mechanical motion at all and uses electo-sensing to indicate taps. There's probably something out there if you look around, but note that the only difference between such a non-clicking mouse and a touchpad, is that you can't physically move a touchpad to move the pointer. So maybe you should just get a larger side touchpad instead - there are plenty of those on the market.
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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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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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Yes, I noticed that too - it's annoying! You can just lightly tap on the trackpad/touchpad to "click" on things and avoid using the noisy button, at least when left-clicking on things (which is what we're usually doing anyway), but when right-clicking you still need to use the button.
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not quite sure what you mean. To me the Acer Aspire has a normal keyboard. It actually is very easy to use and I love the lighted feature. It is a lot better than my old Toshiba keyboard. I can use a very light touch.
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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. 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... » Read More 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. « Show Less
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Yes it happens on mine as well but I bought a wireless mouse and turned the touchpad off.
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This is not good for your touchpad Laptop. The best thing you can do is to buy a mini laser tracking mouse to move the arrow wherever you like. Use your fingers only for typing. My best regards. Gus
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Your palm could be bumping the touchpad. I know this happens to me a lot. I also have this same netbook and noticed I am bumping the touchpad more often.
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The clicking is silent. The scrolling makes a little noise, probably similar to typing on a non-clicking keyboard.
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Wondering if, since this seems to be a common problem with Acer products, Acer will provide a downloadable update that will correct this? As mentioned before, I've disabled the 'virtual scroll' and use the arrow keys to scroll.
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I'm on the same fence. While I haven't driven the Samsung, I did use the Asus today and found the click buttons extremely stiff. Do these "break in" and become easier to click after time? That was my only negative with this machine. How is the touchpad and clicking on the Samsung in comparison?
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FWIW, at a Best Buy in another city, their ASUS notebooks had two finger scrolling working properly and the icons showing in the tray area. Must be something in the setup wrong at the store near me. I finally opted for the Gateway EC5801u which is also a thin, light, longlife model like these ASUS machines. It uses a Synaptic touchpad with a spiral scrolling gesture that I've quickly come to like. Swirl your finger round and round in a circle and it scrolls like controlling an ipod.
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One thing I notice is that the mouse seems to become unresponsive after a set period of time. However, all I have to do is perform a left click and it comes back online. I have rarely (if not never?) had a problem where I need to pull the USB receiver out of the computer to get it to work again.
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Haven't checked. But the touchpad stopped working in less than a month. Don't buy Acer if i had to do it again.