Disable touchpad on your laptop while typing text.
When you are typing a text on your laptop and your thumb accidentally brushes the touchpad, this leads to change the position of the cursor in your document and you need start typing again and again. Touchpad Pal is utility for Windows XP/Vista/7 that solves this problem. It will automatically disable touchpad when you are typing text.
what the heck cnet? HAve to bypass all kinds of crap via custom intal and yet ESET still found a virus and quarantined it!.
Crap with a capital 'K'
Cons
it has a virus and malware - so thats enough
Summary
Could not get it to work or open it.
duffer523
Pros
none does not work as promised
Cons
will not open or work
Summary
not recommended
See Below See below
tagaffney
Pros
See below See below
Cons
Wish it was a permanent on/off control, not a recurring event.
Summary
works for me
coetzee76
Pros
Does what is says. My incidental wipes of my touch pad on my Windows 7 machine don't make my cursor jump to some random crazy place (often taking chunks of text with it).
Cons
none so far
Summary
This product has worked well with in the scope.
spur413
Pros
Works very well with writing software.
Cons
Other areas such as data entry on this page, the product doesn't work as well as it does on writing software.
Summary
Excellent product that works.
great in theory, not so well in practice
sprezzaturon
Pros
At least, I didn't waste my money on this.
Cons
My Acer Aspire 7736Z-4088 suffers from an overly sensitive touch pad. Unfortunately, Touchpadpal v1.1 stopped very few accidently clicks and would sometimes even register a 'blocked click" when I hadn't typed for several minutes.
Summary
Touchpadpal (TPP) is a great idea but still needs a lot of work to be functional. See my comments in 'Con'. It might be helpful if TPP allowed the user to see a debug stream as to why the Touchpad Pal program worked or didn't. Configurable settings may be helpful in future versions as well.
Not helpful
polite430
Pros
Did not install a virus
Cons
It was not helpful. Accidental touches of touchpad usually interrupted typing even with TouchpadPal (supposedly) working. Waste of time.
Summary
Does what it says it will do
sonofjune
Pros
This program has eliminated this problem. Takes a very small amount of space and doesn't slow the computer down at all.
Cons
None so far
Summary
Prior to installing this program my netbook caused me great frustration when typing emails. I would write several paragraphs and then accidentally hit the touchpad and the whole thing would get erased.