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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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GeneralFun with touchpads Pin
Mike Gaskey4-Jul-15 5:23
Mike Gaskey4-Jul-15 5:23 
I have recently adopted a new laptop to the dismay of my desktop. The laptop comes equipped with a touchpad. I'm not one of those raised wrist typists, I always rest my wrists on the surface below the keyboard. More times than I can count I've wound up accidentally touching the touchpad moving the mouse pointer to parts unknown and destroying whatever it was I was typing.

I searched for a solution but didn't find anything that looked promising as a good solution so I gave up and contacted the laptop manufacturer's online help "chat". Had a solution in very short order: "fn" + "f9" to toggle on/off. I'm using W/8.1 and don't know if it is part of the standard OS functionality or an extension of some sort by ASUS. Regardless I wass pleased with the solution and thought I'd share.
Mike - typical Euro-American (white guy).

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