My !"§***!! new Laptop

[Andy in Sig]

My laptop, made by Messrs Compaq and at which I am sitting now , is driving me round the bend. If my left hand touches the rectangle bit which serves in lieu of a mouse at the same time as my right hand, the print size mushrooms like an atomic bomb detonation or goes down to sub microscopic.

I just moved my right hand in a way which remains mysterious and was propelled from CC to Google!

I'm scared that if I type while drunk, I'll inadvertantly cause all the nuclear rockets in N Korea to detonate in their silos.

What on earth are these computer loons thinking about when they designe these things? (Cue some smartarse telling me to buy an Apple. Great idea but for that kind of money I could get some new planes and saws.)

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I'm told there is a sensitivity setting for the "mouse". I have similar problems but am yet to find the settings.

Anyway - deep breaths and count to 10 Andy

 

[Mo1959]

Just use a mouse. The trackpads are just a nuisance.

 

[fossyant]

Windows 8 - it's the new pinch and swipe functions on the mouse pad - mimics the 'touch screen' version of Win8.

you'll get used to it.

 

[Kies]

COMPAQ doesn't exist any longer - we were bought by HP a few years ago !!

 

[fossyant]

Get a wireless mouse and forget about the pad.

 

[Archie_tect]

...or you could take it back, claim your dissatisfaction within your 28 day 'no quibble' guarantee period, and ....buy a mac. [what?]

 

[Kies]

@Archie_tect "Cue some smartarse telling me to buy an Apple"

 

[HLaB]

Made sure with the lst lap top I bought that you could switch the scratch pad off!

 

[tadpole]

My laptop, made by Messrs Compaq and at which I am sitting now , is driving me round the bend. If my left hand touches the rectangle bit which serves in lieu of a mouse at the same time as my right hand, the print size mushrooms like an atomic bomb detonation or goes down to sub microscopic.

I just moved my right hand in a way which remains mysterious and was propelled from CC to Google!

I'm scared that if I type while drunk, I'll inadvertantly cause all the nuclear rockets in N Korea to detonate in their silos.

What on earth are these computer loons thinking about when they designe these things? (Cue some smartarse telling me to buy an Apple. Great idea but for that kind of money I could get some new planes and saws.)

Oh the "joys"of wondows 8

 

[dan_bo]

Hands like cows' tits mate that's your problem.

 

[Archeress]

I use a wireless mouse and switch the touch pad off. I bought a Lenovo about 3 weeks ago now, and initially Windows 8 was quite frustrating, but I'm getting used to it now.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[raleighnut]

+1 for the wireless mouse just get one where the USB dongle fits into the bottom of the mouse when removed from the laptop thereby switching off the mouse and saving the battery, the others just eat them even though they are supposed to "sleep".

 

[Saluki]

I have the same problem and I use a mouse. My main bugbear is that when I am typing, if so much as a hair touches that bloomin' pad, the cursor goes off somewhere else on the page, or it highlights then deletes the lot. A right faff. I have an ASUS something or other. I have felt like throwing it at the wall before now.

 

[dellzeqq]

I've just purchased a laptop with Windows 8 and it is superannoying! Is there any way I can get rid of all those silly squarey things permanently and get myself a proper desktop?