Touchpad doesn't work while typing?

[alexpato111]

i'm having a bit of trouble trying to get my NP305E5A-A01US laptop to work while pressing keys. i've gone to control panel and looked through the mouse/elan touchpad's settings, but nothing i do will get it to work. help would be very much appreciated

[alexpato111]

36 views? come on one of you must have some sort of input

[Luterin]

My guess is that no one else have those problems. Atleast I don't. And it really doesn't feel like its a hardware issue either, so I am guessing you installed something that messed things up. Or perhaps changed some setting by misstake, but no idea which, since I've never seen or heard about anything like this before.

[alexpato111]

well this laptop is straight out of the box so i haven't installed anything that would affect this sort of thing. the thing is that i've googled this problem and on other computers there are simple, simple ways to fix this problem but i cannot find a way to do the same on my computer.

[Luterin]

I never heard anything simillar to this, so something is wrong. Perhaps just call where you bought it and ask them, and possibly get it replaced if it brand new.

[John Ratsey]

I'm a little unclear exactly what your problem is. Could you explain it better.

Most touchpads have a "palm check" option to briefly disable it while people are typing (otherwise the cursor may move if, for example, a thumb accidentally brushes the touchpad).

John

[alexpato111]

it's alright, i figured it out. i found some elan drivers on google that fixed the problem

[normskilight]

I'm having this problem too while playing games.
It seems to be an intended feature to stop the user dragging the mouse about while typing.
However the control panel settings for the current drivers I have (10.0.7.3)
don't seem to have an option to disable this (if there is, they have done a top job on hiding it).
Palm tracking should be enough, I feel this additional feature to disable all movement whilst any typing is taking place seems a bit much.

Could you link me to the place you acquired the alternative drivers or if that not allowed could you quote me what I should Google to find it, thanks in advance.

[alexpato111]

i just typed in ' samsung NP305E5A-A01US touchpad ' and the elan drivers popped up.

[normskilight]

Thanks for the response however using an old driver just doesn't sit well with me.
so..... I've had a play and found the correct registry entry to change.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Elantech\OtherSetting\DisableWhenType_DelayTime_Move

mine was "5dc" which is hexadecimal for 1500 or one and a half seconds.

I set it to 0 and rebooted and now I can hold down keys and continue to use the touch-pad.

I thought at first the registry entry "DisableWhenType_Enable" was the way to tackle this but changing this had no effect, this may be why we don't have a tick box for this option in our control panels yet. Hopefully they fix this and add this feature soon.

Hope this helps someone.

Steve.