How can Windows 7 disallow "tapping the mousepad (touchpad) to work as a click"?

I have a Dell Studio 15 notebook which is about a year old, and the old Vista on it has a tool in the control panel to disable "tapping the mousepad (touchpad) to work as a click", because very often, something is accidentally clicked on (online game or links)...

But Win 7 is installed on it on a new partition, and now there seems to be no tool to disallow that? The Mouse doesn't have any setting to control that. Is there a solution?

Solution 1:

download and install the latest Synaptics touchpad driver.

additionally you can install TouchFreeze, which will automatically disable the touchpad while you are typing text.

TouchFreeze is freeware (although it says for Windows NT / 2K / XP / 2003 only, i have it working in Vista, so it should be OK with Windows 7 too).