My 1st annoyance...

[Mark Gillespie]

Using a laptop with Vista RTM, and it's got an Alps touchpad. How on
earth do I turn off the REALLY annoying tapping feature, which makes my
laptop do crazy things like delete documents, or move the mouse pointer
where it's not needed, just because I brushed the touchpad with my
fingers...

It's really hacking me off... If I want to select something, I will use
the provided buttons, thank you very much...

There seems to be no way to disable this behaviour, from what I can see....

 

[Dennis Pack]

Mark:
My sons' laptop has the Alps touchpad also and it drives me crazy. I
don't have Vista RTM but with Windows x64 I turned off the button above the
touchpad and use a USB mouse.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Using a laptop with Vista RTM, and it's got an Alps touchpad. How on
earth do I turn off the REALLY annoying tapping feature, which makes my
laptop do crazy things like delete documents, or move the mouse pointer
where it's not needed, just because I brushed the touchpad with my
fingers...

It's really hacking me off... If I want to select something, I will use
the provided buttons, thank you very much...

There seems to be no way to disable this behaviour, from what I can
see....

Did you look at the Mouse options in Control Panel?

 

[Jon Davis]

If the behavior cannot be changed from the mouse control panel, try
uninstalling the driver and reboot. Windows Vista might recognize it and use
generic mouse drivers with it.

Jon

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

tapping feature, which makes my laptop do crazy things like delete
documents, or move the mouse pointer where it's not needed, just because
I brushed the touchpad with my fingers...

That's why I HATE touchpads...