T40 Touchpad & Scrolling

[Studio_Two]

Hello,

I have a ThinkPad T40 (2373) and quite often, just using the touchpad causes the page (normally a web page or a document in ms word) to scroll violently up / down (rather than moving the mouse cursor around).

What am I doing to cause this? I can't see how I am catching any other keys / buttons by mistake.

TIA,
Stephen

[christopher_wolf]

Welcome to the Thinkpad Forums

On the right hand edge of the touchpad, there is a scroll-hotzone. Meaning that, any movement tracked by the touchpad in that area will cause a proportion scroll of the text in the same direction. It can be disabled or moved to the other side of the touchpad via the UltraNav driver.

HTH

[Kyocera]

don't think you are doing anything wrong, that happens to me occasionally, i just deal with it it happens with large pdf's too.

[Studio_Two]

Welcome to the Thinkpad Forums

On the right hand edge of the touchpad, there is a scroll-hotzone. Meaning that, any movement tracked by the touchpad in that area will cause a proportion scroll of the text in the same direction. It can be disabled or moved to the other side of the touchpad via the UltraNav driver.

HTH

Thank You for the nice welcome and the sound advice!

I've used the forums quite a bit, but this was the first time I couldn't find an answer by searching.

You are correct about the "hot zone" down the right hand side - I would never have found it!

I must keep catching it as I swipe my finger across.

When I was trying to reproduce the problem, I was just trying different things (tapping and such like), but always in the center of the pad.

Thanks a million!

Stephen