There are simple things in life that can make your day. I'm dog sitting away from the house today missing my family and the normal 4th of July stuff.... (Happy Birthday Shannon!) It is however an opportunity to do some writing and reading. I have an ASUS laptop that I've had just shy of two months now. I've previously used and loved Toshiba. This ASUS laptop is thinner - or svelte, there are things I like about it but the one hang-up I've had has been the touchpad (I usually use a wireless mouse) which constantly is activated by my palm as I type no matter how hard I try to be careful. This means that frustratingly my cursor is constantly getting moved all over my page inserting words where they were not intended and making a mess of almost any project I'm working on. I never experienced this problem with other laptops.... only this one.
I spent close to two hours today with support trying various methods to disable the touchpad. This is something that is supposed to be option. Pushing the Fn button and the f9 buttons should disable it, but no, not for me. We tried numerous other possibilities which always came up empty. Tried uploading other files and setting changes - nothing. I finally gave up for the afternoon. I refused to do a refresh as that would have meant reloading programs. I was not up to that tonight.
A few minutes ago I did the Fn & f9 buttons (something I've tried repeatedly and Walla! They worked! I'm typing this without the touchpad miss-interruptions. It's really cool! I'm a happy person again.*
*No Xanax was used in the creating of this happiness.
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