laptop cursor pad

[sprayermick]

I am running windows XP on a laptop which has a pad which when your finger runs over it moves the cursor, I have been told the right hand side of this pad also acts to scroll the page, is it possible to reduce the sensitivity of the pad as pages on mine seems to take off when scrolling, I know you can use an external mouse plugged in to the usb port but I did not want to go down that route.

[dougielogan]

you can also use the up/down left/right buttons (on my laptop they're bottom left corner),
just click on an empty bit of the page and they should scroll ok, you can use page up/down home to get back to the top of the page and end to get to the bottom.

[dougielogan]

That should read bottom right corner.

[sprayermick]

Thanks for your answers dougielogan, yes I knew about the buttons but I still
need to know if you can adust the pad as on other programs like ''draw'' etc.
the pages are flying about the screen every time the pad is touched.

[joko]

there is no part of the pad that is for scrolling...its likely just because your cursor is on the scroll area...

mine does this too...seems to stick on scrolling an i have to tap again to stop it

ive asked before how to stop this but no-one could answer...

[Squitty]

I have a Toshiba laptop and it comes with some software called touch and launch where one of the options is to define how the touch pad is used and how sensitive it is. It lets me define what each of the corners does when I tap it and how wide the scrolling area on the right hand side is.
Have I every used it? never!! There must be similar software for other laptop makes.