Touch Tamer

Every laptop is fitted with a touchpad to make use of all space efficiently, and prevent you from spending more on a mouse. However, it can be really frustrating to lose window focus while typing by accidentally hitting the touchpad. This is where Touch Tamer comes in handy, and temporarily deactivates the touchpad.

A cool thing about it is that you don’t even need to go through a setup process to make it work. On the one hand, this means that it’s good to go as soon as download is done, giving you a chance to quickly check out the set of features. On the other hand, it doesn’t put system stability at risk, because registry entries are not modified.

The application doesn’t actually come with its own interface, and it resides in the tray area from the moment it’s launched. It’s active right from the start, which means the touchpad is inactive while you type, thus preventing accidental clicks or even losing focus of the active window.

You don’t necessarily have to close the application to deactivate its core feature. Unfortunately, clicking the tray icon doesn’t get the job done either, so you need to bring up the associated context menu in order to suspend the operation, and this also needs to be done to resume the process.

On the bright side of things, the application doesn’t completely block the touchpad, or at least not for so long. It’s enough to prevent any accidents, and short enough to be usable as soon as you’re done typing. You can access the settings file in order to modify the suspend period, which is specified in milliseconds.

All things considered, we can state that Touch Tamer is a practical application which is sure to prevent various accidents while typing on a laptop. Although most laptops come with such a function, deactivation is toggled, whereas this program temporarily disables it for better comfort.