Satellite S50-A-10V: touchpad problem - sliding charm bar

Hello, I am a very experienced user and I am extremely frustrated with the mousepad on my brand new Tosh S50.

I constantly find the "charms" bar appearing on the right side of the screen and the clock at the bottom left - for no reason whatsoever.

The mouse pointer can be in the middle of the screen, and yet it happens.
I don't think I have a faulty mouse pad, I recon it is just a design flaw.

To get closer to how many times this happens, I would say that, with every 5 minutes of using charms bar appears without reason about 20 times-, it of incredibly frustrating and distracted me from my work. I could disable the touchpad and use a mouse, but this isn't the point that I need this job!

Anyone with suggestions, or should I ask for a refund and buy something else?

Simon

Hello

I think you're ignoring the functions and features additional touchpad.
The touchpad seems to bear the extra gesture (multi touch). This additional touchpad can be useful in case you want to directly control some functions of the laptop.

I recommend you to read the manual (page 48) you will find information on the touchpad.
For example the kick of gesture (quickly move your finger to the left edge of the touchpad) show you recently opened apps. The straight shot opens the charm bar (search, action, start, devices, settings)

So this certainly NOT have touchpad problem_ but additional functionality.

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