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Tap Click on Laptops - Do You Use It?

Tap Click on Laptops - Love it? Hate it?

  • Love Tap Click

    Votes: 37 39.4%

  • Hate Tap Click

    Votes: 37 39.4%

  • What's "Tap Click"

    Votes: 10 10.6%

  • On Planet X Tap Clicking is deadly

    Votes: 10 10.6%
  • Total voters
    94

H3LL

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The "Tap Click"* on laptops drives me nuts.

The amount of times I have inadvertently closed a program or opened a link by accident is legion.

Added to that Mrs. H3LL loves it and goes nuts when she discovers I've turned it off. (I almost never remember to turn it back on before logging off). :o

I suspect this is a Marmite thing:

Tap Click on laptops - Love it or hate it?


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*If it's called something else I neither know nor care
 
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I'm with Mrs. H3LL. Tap-click is awesome, and it's a major stumbling block for me when it's not there. Worse than a missing scroll-wheel on a mouse.
 
I only use it when my roommate is sleeping and I don't want to be clicking a lot.
 
Tap click is the first thing I disabled on my new laptop. And tomorrow I'm buying a trackball so that I don't have to deal with that stupid pad at all.
 
The problem I've had with some touchpads is that they are so sensitive that I can be typing, and my hand brushes over the touchpad, and all the text I just entered gets selected, and the next character I type replaces it all.
 
SezMe said:
Gee, H3ll, why not create two profiles, one for you and one for the better half.

Peace and love would ensue. :)
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We have two profiles. They don't work when Mrs. H3LL say "Can you just do xxxxx on the laptop for me" (xxxxx being a "five minute" task that takes two hours). :D

Giggywig said:
Tap click is the first thing I disabled on my new laptop. And tomorrow I'm buying a trackball so that I don't have to deal with that stupid pad at all.
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I plug in a USB mouse often but it's not always practical.

zooterkin said:
The problem I've had with some touchpads is that they are so sensitive that I can be typing, and my hand brushes over the touchpad, and all the text I just entered gets selected, and the next character I type replaces it all.
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Aaaaaaagh! Been there. The horror.


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I am also quick to disable tap-clicking on any laptop I am using for any significant length of time, even if it is not my own. Sometimes, I run into people who didn't even know you could disable it, and they are happy when I forget to restore the setting.

I own a Tablet PC, so I tap-click the whole monitor, with the tablet pen. That is convenient. But, on the touch pad, not so much.
 
zooterkin said:
The problem I've had with some touchpads is that they are so sensitive that I can be typing, and my hand brushes over the touchpad, and all the text I just entered gets selected, and the next character I type replaces it all.
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You can go to the touchpad control program and disable tapping while typing. The tapping automatically re-enables about 1/2 second after typing stops.
 
H3LL said:
I plug in a USB mouse often but it's not always practical..
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Which is why I'm getting a trackball and not a gaming mouse :)
I'm probably buying a desktop next year, that one will be getting the most complicated mouse I can find.
 
What I really hate is if I tap click in a blank space my touchpad goes into "Select mode" where I end up selecting random stuff and accidentally dragging icons and web pages all over the place. It drives me nuts! I use a mouse whenever I can.
 
H3LL said:
We have two profiles. They don't work when Mrs. H3LL say "Can you just do xxxxx on the laptop for me" (xxxxx being a "five minute" task that takes two hours). :D.
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The forum software will let you type the word porn

Oh, and I loathe touch-pads on laptops

ETA: Also, I loathe laptop keyboards... almost as much as I like el-cheapo USB:wireless mice and keyboard combos
 
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I have never used a pointing device better than a mouse. Touch-pad, g-spot, anything. Using a pen and tablet would be good for me, but then you'd have to put down and pick up the pen whenever you wanted to type. Never used one, but for certain applications, it would be great.

OT: Anyone ever used a vertical mouse?
 
arthwollipot said:
Using a pen and tablet would be good for me, but then you'd have to put down and pick up the pen whenever you wanted to type. Never used one, but for certain applications, it would be great.
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I find it's easy enough to hold the pen in your hand while typing. But then I guess it depends on whether you're touch typing or not. I mainly use a few fingers. :)
 
Vertical mouse -
Our company provides the evoluent mice as an ergo solution (for the special people).
The people that use them like them. 'spensive.

I usually pack a mouse with the laptop though.
 
Hey!

"Love Tap Click" is ahead!


You accidentally tap clicked the wrong options... Didn't you?... Go on!... Admit it!.....


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