Scoll bar action on touchpad works outside the...

Question

On this relatively new yet too late to take back notebook I just discovered why I have been having problems with the scrollbar on the touchpad. It seems the active area of the scroll function goes about a third of the way into the touchpad area, well beyond the defined scroll area on the right side of the touchpad. Is this a programming problem that I can somehow fix with a setting or is there a way to disable the scroll feature?