New Notbook user

I am new to the world of Notebooks or lap tops as they use to be called. I
hope someone out there has an easy fix. I am running Window Vista and I have
that funky little pad thing instead of a mouse. As I try to master the art
of clicking or tapping, the window is constantly shrinking. I spend too much
time tapping to open a link and instead of a link I am trying to get the
window to go back to maximized size. Really, it shrink at least 3 out of 5
tapps. What on earth am I doing wrong. Even trying to scroll I end up
shrinking the window.

Thanks

you need to treat your pc like a woman, forgive the analogy but basicaly you
have to treat it just when when you make love to a girl, you are soft with
her, same thing for the pad it sense what you are trying to do by the touch:
a short hard or soft tap will tell it you want to click on something, a soft
constent touch will tell it i want to move the mouse, for the pad that have
this if you are in the bottom of the pad or the right side of the pad, that
will tell it i want to scroll, there is more features you can do with the
pad, but i don't remember them, i know depending on the model, like mine i
can zoom on something, or zoom out *dreaming: zoom, zoom, zoom* sorry had a
mazda commercial in mind. hope this helps and if you have a software for
your pad, you can customize how sensible it is, but i recommend not changing
that and learning how to be soft with it, normally people who learn how to
there pad will last them for years, so other who want the easy out, will
last them for may be two years, cuz there so rough with it, it gets damaged

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"Queen of Hearts" <> wrote in message
news:89CDB95D-1908-45AA-B2F2-...
>I am new to the world of Notebooks or lap tops as they use to be called. I
> hope someone out there has an easy fix. I am running Window Vista and I
> have
> that funky little pad thing instead of a mouse. As I try to master the
> art
> of clicking or tapping, the window is constantly shrinking. I spend too
> much
> time tapping to open a link and instead of a link I am trying to get the
> window to go back to maximized size. Really, it shrink at least 3 out of
> 5
> tapps. What on earth am I doing wrong. Even trying to scroll I end up
> shrinking the window.
>
> Thanks

"Queen of Hearts" <> wrote in message
news:89CDB95D-1908-45AA-B2F2-...
>I am new to the world of Notebooks or lap tops as they use to be called. I
> hope someone out there has an easy fix. I am running Window Vista and I
> have
> that funky little pad thing instead of a mouse. As I try to master the
> art
> of clicking or tapping, the window is constantly shrinking. I spend too
> much
> time tapping to open a link and instead of a link I am trying to get the
> window to go back to maximized size. Really, it shrink at least 3 out of
> 5
> tapps. What on earth am I doing wrong. Even trying to scroll I end up
> shrinking the window.

The touchpad probably has the Synaptic drivers loaded.
One of the features of these drivers is the ability to assign functions to
the corners and to the edges.
It sounds like you are using the corners when the windows minimize, etc.
If you don't like it you can turn them on/off in mouse properties.
start -> control panel -> traditional view -> mouse -> synaptic ..

Queen of Hearts wrote:
> I am new to the world of Notebooks or lap tops as they use to be
> called. I hope someone out there has an easy fix. I am running
> Window Vista and I have that funky little pad thing instead of a
> mouse. As I try to master the art of clicking or tapping, the window
> is constantly shrinking. I spend too much time tapping to open a
> link and instead of a link I am trying to get the window to go back
> to maximized size. Really, it shrink at least 3 out of 5 tapps.
> What on earth am I doing wrong. Even trying to scroll I end up
> shrinking the window.

Plug in a mouse.