Your not missing anything at all. The Windows Experience score is quite strict in what it expects to calculate score.

Unless you have some sort of indication of what the score is you would like to see, the actual score is fairly meaningless. It is rare for me to see a graphics card give more then a 4.0 score in a notebook, unless your running an Alienware top of the range SLI. IMHO The score is an indication but by no means a perfect indication of how well the card will perform. I have also seen a card's score drop between x86 and x64 installations. Unless your building this machine for high end gaming there should be no need to get the score higher, as it is more then sufficient to run day to day applications. Actually, I had the same issue. Device manager lists video as 'Standard VGA Graphics Adapter' and there is no update through Windows or Dell.

I noticed the problem because Areo wasn't running. Using HWiNFO32 a free hardware ID tool, my video was listed as 'nVidia Quadro NV5 135M' a quick visit to nVidia's driver download page, bam, problem solved! This problem didn't occur in the 32-Bit Windows 7, apparently Microsoft had a driver. Note the only real reason for a 64-Bit OS is if you have 4GB+ RAM installed. My Driver- M.

I have just received my Dell Studio 1747, it came with Windows 7 home premium. As I believe all dell computers come with it now. Free Download Program Richard Smallwood Persuaded Rar Files. In regards to the problem, here is the solution I have found.

Aug 23, 2009. Your not missing anything at all. The Windows Experience score is quite strict in what it expects to calculate score. Unless you have some sort of indication of what the score is you would like to see, the actual score is fairly meaningless. It is rare for me to see a graphics card give more then a 4.0 score in a.

If you do not have a touch pad icon, then still go to “control panel” once there go to “devices and printers” then right click on your “laptop” icon. It will give you a list of all the things you can change.

Now if you have not had a mouse hooked up do so now, and make sure it works. Click on the “mouse settings” tab, in the laptop icon. Then click on the “device settings” tab. Then click on disable, or enable.

It is under there. Just make sure its highlighted on the touchpad. Then to enable it again, before you disconnect your mouse do it again, but click on enable. If you don’t have the touchpad tab, you have to reinstall the touchpad driver. Go to the Dell website and go to “Drivers and Downloads”, and search your Dell’s specific touchpad driver.

You will need to enter your make and model and service tag (mine is on the bottom of my computer). Download the driver and reinstall it. Then follow this guy’s directions and the tab should be there. If you want the touchpad to be enabled only when there isn’t a mouse plugged in, click on “Disable Touchpad when USB mouse is present” instead of “Disable Touchpad” For some reason, Dell initially takes away your right to make a choice about whether or not you want your touchpad disabled. I talked to the Dell tech’s about it they said it is disabled so you don’t so it accidentally. Pretty stupid. Anyways, hope that helps.

If the reason for disabling the touchpad while a mouse is plugged is because of phantom cursor movements, I have another work around that seems to be working well for me. With the new win 7 32-bit driver there is no dell tab, but there is a device settings tab, with a synaptics logo, which is the last tab. Click the settings button, there will be a tree of options in the left window pane. Expand the pointing tree and then the Sensitivity tree. Select the Touchcheck option and in the right window pane slide the bar all the way to the right.

Essentially what this does is make the touchpad less sensitive to light touches of your palms and your cursor will no longer jump around. I have a 64-bit Dell studio, and just upgraded my OS from Vista to windows 7 and had this same problem with now not having the touchpad tab (I had it before) in order to disable it. Just thought I’d chime in and let you all know that, unlike VJ’s similar situation above, Dell did have the correct drivers on their website for my computer, and downloading the drivers resolved the issue for me. It must depend on the hardware you have whether they have the correct drivers available or not. Thanks for the help.

After much searching, I went into control panel and changed the “view by” option in the upper right hand corner to “catagory.” Click the “hardware and sound” catagory, the third one down in the first column. Next, in my window, the top catagory is “Devices and Printers.” Under that I have 5 options and one is “Mouse.” Click “Mouse.” There are several tabs at the top of that window.

I have “Device Settings.” Click that. Highlight your touchpad and click one of the three buttons: enable, disable, or settings. I clicked settings and got a tutorial on the various options I have. The thing that was crazy making for me was the “one finger scrolling” “two finger scrolling” and “pinch zoom”. The heal of my left hand was always touchng the touch pad so it “thought” I was always two finger scrolling.

Seems like it’s something to do with loading Win7 on a machine that came pre-installed with (rubbish) Vista? I have an Inspiron 1720 and have tried everything to disable the over-sensitive pad. Using the Dell DVD that came with the system I finally managed to get the Dell touchpad to show up in Control panel but.no option to disable it. Found it another way through device manager and, lo and behold, the option ‘Disable Device’ was greyed-out (i.e. Not available).

Tried through the mouse utilities but same result. So after much swearing and headaches I have opted for the engineer’s solution: I have sellotaped a small piece of thin cardboard over the touchpad, and that works just fine! Now I can type without the cursor runnin/jumping all over the place.

Try that solution, it’s the easiest and least stressful. Wish I’d just done that in the first place, it was one of the first suggestions I found on the Internet. If you’re like me you’ve probably looked online as to how to disable your touchpad while your USB mouse is plugged in. I own a Dell Inspiron 1545 and the directions that were showing up online were not options that were available to me.

So I messed with settings for four hours and was finally able to change my mouse settings. On the off-chance that someone else is having the same problem I was having, I wanted to provide this information so someone else doesn’t want to rip their hair out.

In my Mouse Properties there was no Dell Touchpad tab. I also do not have a touchpad hotkey on my laptop.

From here I went to Control Panel>Device Manager>Mice and Other pointing devices. Right-click on Dell Touchpad and choose Scan for hardware changes. It should say something to the effect of PS/2 mouse. Basically you want to switch the Dell Touchpad to the PS/2 mouse setting. It will ask to reset. After the reset, Right-click on the desktop and choose personalization.

Go to the Mouse Pointer option. Click it and go to the Hardware tab. Double Click on the PS/2 mouse.

A new window should pop up. Go to the Driver tab. Click update driver. It will search online and update the drivers for you. Afterwards it will ask to reset.

You may ask why I didn’t do this in the first place without switching Dell Touchpad to PS/2. It didn’t do crap. It said that my drivers were already updated. If this works for you off the bat you don’t have to follow the Device Manager step. Bully for you.

After the reset, Right-click on the desktop and choose personalization. Go to the Mouse Pointer option. There should now be the Dell Touchpad tab under the Mouse Properties. Now you can finally follow the directions that everyone else has posted online as to how to disable the touchpad when a USB mouse is plugged into the computer.

There is no way that I can find a way to turn off touchpad on dell inspiron windows`s 7 without a sledge hammer involved.I will go to the store where purchased this piece of crap. Then my friend with video camera in handWill allow me to give a well rehearsed speech on how disappointed I am in the service and and the product and beleive me the public will know exactly what brand make and model Dell Inspiron I`m talking aboutThen with my trusty sledge I will proceed to smash this piece of crap until it is no longer recognizable as anythingHere`s where my satisfaction comes inI will continually post on U TUBEI bet it catches on for a great laugh,and a great add for your computeryou have until 2/13/12 •. I have a m5010 and none of these solutions worked for me BUT Ian Tiangco made a point about installing the R257288.exe so i googled that file name and installed it but that but it didnt work for me. But if you look inside the folder once its installed you’ll see a file labeled setup.exe i clicked that and it installed synaptics or something like that and asked to restart my computer so i did and then when i went to the mouse settings there was a new tab for synaptics and it let me disable the mousepad!!! I hope this helps someone.