How disable double-taps on laptop touchpads? Ack

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The user is experiencing a significant issue with the touchpad on a new Toshiba laptop running Vista, where finger drags are incorrectly interpreted as double-taps, causing navigation problems. Despite seeking help from various tech support and online resources, no effective solutions have been found. A suggested workaround includes disabling touch-clicking in the touchpad settings, which would require using physical buttons for clicking. However, it remains unclear if disabling only the double-click function is possible. The user plans to switch to an external mouse and disable the touchpad as a temporary fix.
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I have a new Toshiba laptop (with Vista, sigh), that has a seriuos user interface glitch problem with it's mouse-replacing touchpad. The main problem, as far ask I can tell, is that it interprets some fingertrip drags as double-taps part-way through, and sends me off into the weeds.

I've tried the usual tech support and search sites (Toshiba, Microsoft, Wikipedia, Google, etc.), but no help so far.

Does anybody have suggestions of what to try? I'll get a new mouse and turn off the touchpad soon, but this seems like such a fundamental user interface issue, that there must be some solution or workaround... Thanks!
 
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You should be able to disable touch-clicking altogether (so you have to use the buttons to click) in your touch pad controls. I don't know if you can disable only the double click though.
 
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