How to limit clickpad functional area - ASUS K56C

Hi guys,

I just bought myself an ASUS K56C laptop.

I am running WIN7 64 Pro SP1

My problem is that the mouse buttons are withing the touch area and I would like it to be disabled. Such that only part of the touch area is recognized. I have attached an image to clarify the idea. Basically only the red area in the image should be recognized. The touch pad is a clickpad which means the buttons are part of the touch area and not separate buttons.


I have two reasons for this request: Firstly, I like to hold my thumb on the mouse button instead of holding it in the air. This is problematic, because touchpad thinks that I'm trying some kind of two finger gesture all the time and cursor stops moving.

Clicking is also problematic since every finger movement -- regardless of how insignificant it might be -- on the "button" will move the cursor.

I have installed the 'ATKACPI driver and hotkey-related utilities' which is a prerequisite for 'ASUS Smart Gesture' which also is installed and working fine. However the drivers does not give me the choice to change this setting.

Anyone knows how to do this?
If I'm right and the ASUS Smart Gesture doesn't allow me to do this perhaps there is some third-party application that is able to?

Thanks