You want “Mouse” settings (why there’s no “Mouse / Touchpad” or similar I don’t fully understand, just as it’s puzzling that there are Tablet options when my laptop isn’t a tablet and doesn’t support that functionality. You’ll now see the many, many different ways you can customize your Vista experience. As is typical in Vista, there’s a way to tweak what you want, but it involves a couple of steps…įirst off, choose Control Panels off the START (uh, Vista logo) menu on the lower left of your computer screen: I can’t say for sure that’ll happen in the PC world, but I certainly don’t expect any future Apple laptops to have discrete buttons to push for button behaviors in the operating system.ĭon’t want to do that? That’s okay. So my first thought is that this might be a behavior that you just need to train yourself to work with rather than disable, so as you hop from laptop to laptop in future years you’ll be ready for the potential elimination of “mouse” buttons.
Definitely something you have to get used to, but once you do, it’s pretty cool. Heck, on the latest Apple MacBook line, there’s no button at all: the trackpad is both the dragging and tapping surface. I’m not sure when that started to be popular, but just about all trackpads now seem to have the ability to detect taps in addition to sliding fingers, so it’s quite common now to find computers – Mac and PC – that have the capability you’re talking about.
