Disabling “tap to click” on MSI Wind Netbook
December 18th, 2008
I’ve recently bought an MSI Wind Netbook. Generaly it’s a good computer but it has an annoying problem: the out-of-the-box configuration does not let you disable the horrible “tap-to-click” feature. The solution is to upgrade the sentelic trackpad driver which will enable the option of disabling the click tap feature. Or in simple words:
1. download and install this package: sentelic driver update
2. after installing and rebooting double click on the trackpad shaped icon on the tray on the lower right side of the screen.
3. open the last tab which says “Finger-sensing Pad”
4. from the top combo box choose “Click on Pad”
5. uncheck “Enable on-pad click”
6. press “Apply” and than “Ok”
No more annoying tap to click!
How is the Linux support on these devices?
I haven’t tried to install Linux on it but it seems that it’s possible to buy the same netbooks with Linux pre-installed on it, so I guess it will work well.
I found your site on google and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work.
Love the advice. Thank you.
It works! It works! It works! FINALLY I can use this think without an external mouse or dealing with “unintentional clicking!” It is like I have a whole new machine… THANK YOU!
I cant get this to work no matter what I do ? no icon appears at all in the right lower corner of the screen ? any help ???
WOW. THanks so much. I looked everywhere for this answer. Why isn’t this option part of the defaul install?
Worked like a charm. Thanks again for the article.
Doesn’t work for me either–no touchpad icon in the lower right. However, tThe new driver installs, and I see “Finger Sensing Pad” under the “Hardware” tab under mouse properties. I’m using Vista Home Premium. What OS’s has this fix worked on?
Found another solution! For my MSI U210, I downloaded and installed the latest Synaptics driver, and that gave me the option to turn off the hated tap-to-click.
http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers
Thanks so much. Even a computer-illiterate like me was able to follow your advice and, like someone above said…it’s like a whole new machine! No more deleting entire paragraphs of research papers and wanting to dash my Wind against the wall. Cheers!
That’s just the info I was looking for! Thanks! The only thing I need now is a utility to disable the CAPS LOCK!
Yeah! Thank you thank you thank you! I can’t imagine why someone thinks tap-to-click is such a good idea that it should mandatory.
Ironically, as I was trying to slide the mouse over to the OK button on the first step of the installer, I somehow “clicked” in the language droplist and started installing the dutch version! Just proves what a horrible idea it is!
Thank you for this fix! The tap to click is annoying as hell.
THANK YOU! The tap on click was driving me nuts as was the moving of the cursor while I was typing. Fixed both thanks to you!
Hi
You wrote: “The tap on click was driving me nuts as was the moving of the cursor while I was typing. Fixed both thanks to you!”
I use and rely on the “tap on click” but the “moving of the cursor while typing” is absolutely driving me nuts. Will this driver allow me to keep the “tap on click” but eliminate the “moving of the cursor while typing”?
Thanks, Sandy