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turning off the touchpad
how do i turn of the touchpad, i cant find it to do so. the reason being i
cant type without brushing against the touchpad and making the curser jump and start typing in plases that i dont want to type. vist system p.s. pretend i know nothing. |
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turning off the touchpad
"bobbypaintsstuf" wrote in
message ... how do i turn of the touchpad, i cant find it to do so. the reason being i cant type without brushing against the touchpad and making the curser jump and start typing in plases that i dont want to type. vist system You didn't mention what make and model your touchpad is, but try this approach: Open Control Panel Hardware and Sound Mouse. Look for the Device Settings tab, there should be an option to deactivate the touchpad. Charlie42 |
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turning off the touchpad
That question has nothing to do with Vista and would be better asked in a
public hardware or laptops group. Nonetheless - it depends entirely on your laptop. Some have a a switch or other option to turn off the touch pad. Some have no such option. You should check the documentation for your machine or ask this somewhere like comp.sys.laptops and include the exact make and model of your machine. -- "bobbypaintsstuf" wrote in message ... how do i turn of the touchpad, i cant find it to do so. the reason being i cant type without brushing against the touchpad and making the curser jump and start typing in plases that i dont want to type. vist system p.s. pretend i know nothing. |
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turning off the touchpad
bobbypaintsstuf wrote:
how do i turn of the touchpad, i cant find it to do so. the reason being i cant type without brushing against the touchpad and making the curser jump and start typing in plases that i dont want to type. vist system p.s. pretend i know nothing. what charlie said: click the Start "Orb" (button), click on "Control Panel", double click the Mouse icon, go to the "Device Settings" tab, click on "Disable", click "OK" and close control panel. Now your touchpad will not get "in your way". |
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turning off the touchpad
the reson i stated deliberatly that i'm on vista is because the way you all
describe is the way i thought it would be too. but when i go to the mouse properties and click devise settings it is an almost empty that page that only has 2 options to click they are OK and CANCEL. IT SAYS IT IS SYNAPTICS POINTING DEVIcE - V9 1.0 27 OCT06 and underneeth that it says [EVALUATION COPY].there is no way to click on the botton to disable internal pointing devise when external USB pointing devise is attached. therefore i thought it to be a vista THING! i can only find drivers for the mouse but my touchpad works, go figure! any other options? "David" wrote: bobbypaintsstuf wrote: how do i turn of the touchpad, i cant find it to do so. the reason being i cant type without brushing against the touchpad and making the curser jump and start typing in plases that i dont want to type. vist system p.s. pretend i know nothing. what charlie said: click the Start "Orb" (button), click on "Control Panel", double click the Mouse icon, go to the "Device Settings" tab, click on "Disable", click "OK" and close control panel. Now your touchpad will not get "in your way". |
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turning off the touchpad
bobbypaintsstuf wrote:
the reson i stated deliberatly that i'm on vista is because the way you all describe is the way i thought it would be too. but when i go to the mouse properties and click devise settings it is an almost empty that page that only has 2 options to click they are OK and CANCEL. IT SAYS IT IS SYNAPTICS POINTING DEVIcE - V9 1.0 27 OCT06 and underneeth that it says [EVALUATION COPY].there is no way to click on the botton to disable internal pointing devise when external USB pointing devise is attached. therefore i thought it to be a vista THING! i can only find drivers for the mouse but my touchpad works, go figure! any other options? "David" wrote: bobbypaintsstuf wrote: how do i turn of the touchpad, i cant find it to do so. the reason being i cant type without brushing against the touchpad and making the curser jump and start typing in plases that i dont want to type. vist system p.s. pretend i know nothing. what charlie said: click the Start "Orb" (button), click on "Control Panel", double click the Mouse icon, go to the "Device Settings" tab, click on "Disable", click "OK" and close control panel. Now your touchpad will not get "in your way". sure! go to device manager and disable it there. |
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turning off the touchpad
when i go to the device manager it list it as mice and other pointing
devices." P/S2 Mouse" it must be it because i have disconected my usb mouse and that is all that is left and the touchpad still works. but there is no obviouse way to deactivate it, just uninstall the driver which is as good as perm, is that the only way to surmount this obsticle? i will need it on trains and such ( the touchpad that is) and am hesitant to do that. thanks for your imput and patience. sure! go to device manager and disable it there. |
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turning off the touchpad
Bobby:
On HP and Dell laptops there is a button usually along the top to turn off the touch pad. Have a great day. -- Dennis Pack XP x64 SP2, Vista Enterprise x64 Office Professional Plus 2007 "bobbypaintsstuf" wrote in message ... how do i turn of the touchpad, i cant find it to do so. the reason being i cant type without brushing against the touchpad and making the curser jump and start typing in plases that i dont want to type. vist system p.s. pretend i know nothing. |
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turning off the touchpad
bobbypaintsstuf wrote:
when i go to the device manager it list it as mice and other pointing devices." P/S2 Mouse" it must be it because i have disconected my usb mouse and that is all that is left and the touchpad still works. but there is no obviouse way to deactivate it, just uninstall the driver which is as good as perm, is that the only way to surmount this obsticle? i will need it on trains and such ( the touchpad that is) and am hesitant to do that. thanks for your imput and patience. sure! go to device manager and disable it there. u can let device manager search for new hardware and it will find it,if it's deleted, but you should just be able to "enable" it when u want to, if all you have done is disabled it. that just takes a moment. |
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turning off the touchpad
Unless it has been added in recent models that I haven't yet seen, the
ThinkPad does not provide a way to disable the touchpad. One of my clients tapes a piece of cardboard over the touchpad on his machine. -- "bobbypaintsstuf" wrote in message ... when i go to the device manager it list it as mice and other pointing devices." P/S2 Mouse" it must be it because i have disconected my usb mouse and that is all that is left and the touchpad still works. but there is no obviouse way to deactivate it, just uninstall the driver which is as good as perm, is that the only way to surmount this obsticle? i will need it on trains and such ( the touchpad that is) and am hesitant to do that. thanks for your imput and patience. sure! go to device manager and disable it there. |
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