This is the answer --- I installed Synaptics for Vista even though I have Windows 7 --- they work beautifully together. You can then disable your touchpad and us a bluetooth mouse and the problem is solved!!! It's great.
Windows 7, touchpad sensitivity, Sony VAIO
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I had Windows Vista Home Premium installed on my Sony VAIO PCG-5KSP laptop computer.
It never happened before, but after I installed Windows 7 the touchpad sensitivity went through the roof. The cursor constantly will be "clicked" by my finger or wrist and move to where the mouse is located while I am typing.
It's already happened twice while typing this! I have already tried searching for TouchPad and looked under Control Panel > Mouse >
There is no tab for Properties/Settings with Sensitivity. Under Properties is only shows General, Driver, and Details, and if I click on Change Settings it again only has General, Driver, and Detail tabs.
Where can I change the stupid touchpad sensitivity??
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2010-10-27T01:47:53+00:00 Alright people, here's whatchya gotta do. What you are going to do is download the the Synaptics touchpad driver. The driver is located at this link http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers
This solved my problem after I installed Windows 7. Thank you! I have Sony Vaio laptop that originally had Vista. They don't have Windows 7 driver for touchpad on website but this driver is awesome. Thanks so much!
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2010-10-14T14:25:21+00:00 Hi windowsfanny thanks a lot for your Help, the link that you are posted work for me!!!!
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Anonymous
2010-10-11T19:06:26+00:00 I have a VAIO VPCEB1SFX with Windows 7 OS. Also struggled with the touchy touchpad. The touchpad sensitivity really can't be adjusted satisfactorily through the Mouse feature... but I finally got a solution to circumvent this.....
I am using an external wireless mouse now. And, to stop the cursor jumping around when the palm part of the thumb accidentally brushes the touchpad.... I disable the touchpad by going to the VAIO CONTROL CENTER (use Search to find it faster). Then go to POINTING DEVICE and unclick ENABLE and hit APPLY to disable the touchpad. I now eliminate the problem of jumping cursors (I always use a wireless mouse). When I don't have the external mouse handy and need to use the touchpad, I go to START (using the keyboard), scroll to SEARCH with the arrow keys, type in VAIO Control Center ( I have since pinned it to my START menu), arrow down or use TAB, to POINTING DEVICE, Tab to the ENABLE box, hit SPACE to check it, Tab to APPLY, hit ENTER, Tab to OK to close the Window. The touchpad is activated again this way.
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Anonymous
2010-10-08T11:28:07+00:00 I have Vaio VPCEB3E1E pre-installed with Windows 7 and was experiencing similar problems.
In particular, with internet browsers the page would zoom uncontrollably - very frustrating.
In my case, no additional drivers were required to solve the problem.
The touchpad settings can be accessed as follows:
- Windows Start Menu > Devices and Printers (it is on right hand side)
- A new window opens. Click on the big picture of the computer
- A new window opens called 'Vaio Control Center'. Click 'Keyboard and Mouse' (in the list on the left of the window)
- Click 'Pointing Device'.
You can then disable/enable the touchpad.
Click the 'Advanced' button to change the settings.
- Speed/Sensitivity can be found under the 'Pointer Options' tab.
- Multi-touch sensitivity is under the 'Multitouch Gestures' tab.