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Old 12th Feb 2010, 18:35
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I bought a MSI U-100 netbook. A mistake. It works well enough ---

BUT, the touch-pad "mouse" simulates a left click if you momentarily lift your finger and put it back on the pad again. I often do this went moving the cursor long distances on the screen. You never know what you will have unintentionally selected. I'm adapting, but WHY? MSI says that there is no way to disable this feature. Of course one can use an external mouse, but the whole idea of a netbook is small and portable without extra bits and pieces.

Apparently one can download a touchpad driver from somewhere, but MSI used two different touchpads so I don't dare.

The U-100 has two disk partitions, as is common. The operating system "restore" is partition "C:" and the user's partition is "D:", exactly opposite to any other machine I have seen.

Why did they have to be so "creative"?
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