T60 touchpad

[llamov]

I recently bought a used T60 to replace one with a defective screen. I'm going to replace the screen on my old one, but until I do I'll replace the newer one.

The newer one, however, has an issue which I find really annoying. That's to say, the touchpad has a hair trigger. Sometimes merely scrolling over a link, or, heaven forbid, an ad, selects it.

I went to control panel and selected "mouse properties" but in Windows XP there's no way to control pad sensitivity that I can see.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

[Neil]

Maybe you need to install the UltraNav driver from Lenovo. It allows much more adjustment than the generic Windows driver.

[GACrabill]

... the touchpad has a hair trigger. Sometimes merely scrolling over a link, or, heaven forbid, an ad, selects it.

If you have any item listed in Control Panel -> Add/Remove that begins with "Java...", uninstall it.

Then install MalwareBytes and run it to see how much malware needs to be removed.

"Mouse-over" or "drive-by" events are often triggered by a malware infection which was installed because of the security holes within the various releases of Java.