Filed under: Text, Utilities, Windows
One thing about laptops that drives a lot of my customers nuts is the touchpad. If I had a nickel for every time someone brought a laptop in complaining that their mouse pointer suddenly jumped somewhere else on the screen and messed up their typing, I'd have at least $10.15. Hey, I'm in a small town - that would nearly count as an epidemic.
TouchFreeze is a tiny, open source program designed to fix this problem once and for all. Once you install it, TouchFreeze sits your in your system tray and waits for you to begin typing. When you do, it temporarily disables input from your touchpad.
Be forewarned: TouchFreeze may not work with your laptop's touchpad. It worked on my two Acer test systems just fine, but certain brands may be a bit less cooperative.
You can download TouchFreeze over at Google Code.
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Automatically disable your touchpad while you type with TouchFreeze originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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