Yeah, Vista's a RAM eater, but you can disable some pretties if it's a problem. I actually haven't noticed anything, but heh, I do have 2 gigs. *pets*

What kind of laptop (brand, model) do you have, bluestarultor?

Yeah I have 2.5 gigs and it runs rather sweetly, I just have to do a little more maintenance on my computer.

I just got a Dell Inspirion to replace my eMachines.

It's actually not a bad buy at ~$450US, but 1GB RAM just doesn't last with Vista. Plus, it uses friggin' BD-RAM, so I can't even use my 1GB strip of SD that I just upgraded the eMachines with. :gonk:

Ouch! That sucks. Makes me glad I got my 2 GBs straight out; I've never tried Vista on anything less.

But anyway, I read somewhere (never tried it myself) that if you uninstall the drivers that come with Synaptics and replace it with the drivers that came through the laptop manufacturer (in your case, you'd want to download the Dell Inspiron model # whatever Synaptic driver), and then you are able to disable the touch-to-click thing again. I haven't tried it myself yet though since I haven't updated my Vista (sucky internet connection, yo). If you google it, you should be able to find more info.