Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my dell
laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i don't
accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!

Check in Control Panel (Classic View) Mouse. Depending on the touchpad
driver you have, sometimes there will be an On/Off switch to enable the
touchpad function. There may also be a switch to disable the touchpad
function when a USB mouse is detected, which I think is a function of
IntelliPoint from Microsoft. Do you have the IntelliPoint 6.1 for Windows
Vista software installed for your Optical Mouse 3000?


"Emily" wrote in message
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Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my dell
laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i don't
accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!

Hi dean-dean!

I looked in the control panel and under mouse but there is no button to
click on for it and when I take out and replace the wireless mouse, nothing
pops up asking if I want to switch off the touchpad and I don't know what
program is installed that lets me use the mouse because when I switched to
vista, i believe that the previous program was deinstall and a new one
replaced it. I looked for Intellipoint....and I got nothing.

"dean-dean" wrote:

Check in Control Panel (Classic View) Mouse. Depending on the touchpad
driver you have, sometimes there will be an On/Off switch to enable the
touchpad function. There may also be a switch to disable the touchpad
function when a USB mouse is detected, which I think is a function of
IntelliPoint from Microsoft. Do you have the IntelliPoint 6.1 for Windows
Vista software installed for your Optical Mouse 3000?


"Emily" wrote in message
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Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my dell
laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i don't
accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!

Go here to download and install the IntelliPoint 6.1 for Windows Vista
software for your Optical Mouse 3000:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mo...indows%20Vista

There won't probably be anything popping up to ask if you want to turn off
the touchpad. You'll have to set things up in Control Panel Mouse, if the
options are there. Installing the above might help. Also look in Control
Panel (Classic View)Device Manager, and expand the "Mice and other pointing
devices" category, and look at the names of the devices listed. Tell me
what you see. If one says PS/2 Mouse, your software for your touchpad isn't
probably installed either, and you're only using a generic driver, which
won't give you many choices in Control Panel Mouse. You may have to get a
Vista driver for your touchpad, too.

"Emily" wrote in message
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Hi dean-dean!

I looked in the control panel and under mouse but there is no button to
click on for it and when I take out and replace the wireless mouse,
nothing
pops up asking if I want to switch off the touchpad and I don't know what
program is installed that lets me use the mouse because when I switched to
vista, i believe that the previous program was deinstall and a new one
replaced it. I looked for Intellipoint....and I got nothing.

"dean-dean" wrote:

Check in Control Panel (Classic View) Mouse. Depending on the
touchpad
driver you have, sometimes there will be an On/Off switch to enable the
touchpad function. There may also be a switch to disable the touchpad
function when a USB mouse is detected, which I think is a function of
IntelliPoint from Microsoft. Do you have the IntelliPoint 6.1 for
Windows
Vista software installed for your Optical Mouse 3000?


"Emily" wrote in message
news
Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my
dell
laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i
don't
accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!