Next, let's see how can i avoid touching the touchpad while typing in windows 10, which can be quite annoying for many people when typing on a laptop.
Laptops are too comfortable for typing and for many things. The ability to take it wherever we want is something that greatly facilitates certain tasks, whether they are study or work.
All laptops come with a touchpad which is, in a nutshell, what we use to move the mouse pointer and therefore we don't need a conventional one that is always connected to it.
The problem is that when we type, we are under the keyboard. You might touch it by mistake. This can cause endless possibilities and complicate our work. How can we avoid it? The simplest way would be to disable it.
Most laptops have key combinations that vary by brand to disable it. But on many occasions, this is not what we want. Can it be solved in another way?
How to avoid tapping on a laptop touchpad
However, that may not be your idea, since you use the same back as a conventional mouse. So what we should do is turn on the touchpad delay in Windows 10.
The latest version of the Microsoft operating system has a configuration menu where we can manipulate many things in our operating system without having to access the Windows registry or go through the Control Panel.
In this way we can access the function menu for the touchpad and add a delay in it. So if we touch him involuntarily, he doesn't react at all. Ideal for writing much more comfortable and always having the possibility to use it whenever we want.
How to enable the delay on the touchpad in Windows 10
- The first thing we will do is go up " Start »And then press on the toothed wheel located on the left side.
- Then the menu opens Windows settings.
- Here you will have to go to the section " devices «.
- In the left sidebar we will find a section for " Mouse and touch panel «.
- In this place we will see a section that says " Touch Panel »With a drop-down menu.
- Pressing on it we will have four options: no delay (always active, short, medium and long delay).
- Typically, the average lag is enough to avoid unintentional touches on the touchpad. However, depending on the write speed, you may need to configure another delay, short or long.
- We recommend that you try each of these to draw your own conclusions and thus avoid touching your laptop's touchpad.
As you can see, this is extremely easy to do. In case you always use a conventional mouse connected to your laptop, it would be better to deactivate the touchpad. Each brand has a combination of keys to achieving this, so it's not impossible to add them all to this article.
However, you can find out online what the combination for your laptop and this would be the best option because if you are not going to use it, it is not worth having it active or with the lag in question.
In addition to avoiding touching the touchpad while typing in Windows 10, on the See How To page you will find articles on how to simulate the middle mouse button on the touchpad and how to enable or disable the touchpad in Ubuntu Linux.
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