Laptop Mouse/Cursor Glitch?

Kimiko

I recently had a new hard drive put into my laptop when I was having problems with the old one. Everything is running smoothly, except for one problem. Occasionally, when I have my cursor over a link or something else that reacts when clicked, it will act as if I have clicked when I haven't. Sometimes it takes a second, never longer than five. I never had this problem when the old hard drive was in here. I'm thinking maybe this is a factory default setting rather than an actual problem, which would have been dealt with long ago; about 3 years to be precise. If anyone has any clue as to the possible setting to change or if this is a real problem, I'd greatly appreciate any help.

Ruckus

Did Windows get reinstalled? Sounds like a default mouse setting thing, or possibly a lack of touchpad driver/settings application.

Windows mouse settings can be changed in Control Panel-->Mouse, while special drivers or applications for your touchpad are usually available from the manufacturer's website.

AtomBomb

With the old hard drive, did you tap the touchpad to click things, or did you use buttons? If you used buttons, the default may have gone back to also allowing you to tap the touchpad, which if you're not accustomed to it, you probably do by accident all the time.

Kimiko

Yes, now that you mention it, touching the touchpad acts as a click now, whereas it didn't before. While this is nifty, I don't really want it to do this. If anyone has any idea how to change this, I'd really appreciate it. I am sort of a n00b with these kinds of things.

embrik

Check the mouse control panel. There should be a couple of touchpad tabs, one of which should cover what the pad will do when tapping on it.

Galactica2001

I know on my laptop there are 2 buttons located above the touch pad itself and then there are the 2 clicking buttons located below. One of the buttons above disables the touch pad all together. The other disables the click to open feature on the pad.