(Yes, I skipped quite a few macOS versions, so I don't know when that happened. Some versions of macOS ago, it used to be optional now that appears no longer to be the case. I don't suppose there's a way that's built into the OS, is there? I'd also like to be able to turn off window snap. Is there any way to turn that off? It's really annoying.

Open System Preferences and go to Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad. Disable Macbook Trackpad Let me show you how to disable your Macbook’s trackpad. becouse one is for the click's and one is for the mouse movement. As a result, best will be to turn the trackpad off on your Macbook. Instead, I have to scroll a certain distance before macOS accepts that it's what I meant to do - which then results in the page suddenly jumping to catch up to my fingers, rather than smoothly scrolling with my fingers. Start > Control Panel > Devices and Printers > Apple Keyboard/Trackpad > Right click, Properties > Hardware > HID- Compliant mouse, MICE and OT. How do you turn off trackpad when mouse is plugged in Disable the Touchpad Automatically When You Connect a Mouse You can also hit Windows+I. If I'm, say, reading a web page, and I go to scroll down after not having scrolled for a while, the scrolling does not start immediately.

I don't know if that's the feature that's doing the thing I hate, but anyway.

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