Dell laptop touchpad sensitivity

Xire · 22 Jul 2011 at 13:15

Hi guys,

I cannot seem to find a way to change the sensitivity of my Laptop.

The issue I have is that when im typing a document and my palm goes over the touch pad quite often it thinks im clicking the touch pad and my cursor clicks off the page.

any idea on how I change this? its a DELL e6510

RobK · 22 Jul 2011 at 14:11

If it uses the Synaptics touchpad driver you can go to Control Panel > Mouse and you should see a tab called "Device Settings" with the Synaptics logo on. In there you have an option called PalmCheck where you can adjust the sensitivity of the touchpad while typing.

Xire · 26 Jul 2011 at 11:35

Nah it doesnt use the synaptics driver. Would this be the only way? instal software?

Rapier · 26 Jul 2011 at 20:00

The touch pads on the latitude models are ridiculously sensitive. There is no dell supported program either. They always claim that the latest driver reduces the sensitivity but it's still far too sensitive.

Xire · 3 Aug 2011 at 11:45

So is synaptics my best option? is there any other software I could try and install or will nothing improve this issue?