This is driving me crazy when typing, the cursor changes position because my thumb hits the pad. I use an external USB mouse. How do I deactivate the touch pad?
http://i.pbase.com/o4/68/563668/1/59214944.dell700m.gif
Thank you.
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This is driving me crazy when typing, the cursor changes position because my thumb hits the pad. I use an external USB mouse. How do I deactivate the touch pad?
http://i.pbase.com/o4/68/563668/1/59214944.dell700m.gif
Thank you.
Use a different keyboard?
You can start with Control Panel -> Touchpad, but sometimes the touchpad is listed under mouse properties. Try Control Panel -> Mouse next and see if there are options there for the touchpad. On my Thinkpad, the trackpoint is listed under mouse properties, and I think I can disable it there.
Alternatively, the touchpad/trackpoint drivers are sometimes running in the system tray (you may have to expand it if you've set it to hide inactive icons) - see if there is anything there.
Well I don't have room and no PS/2 port to plug in a keyboard. And there is nothing in control panel or in mouse properties except that the PS/2 mouse does show up along side my USB mouse, but you can only uninstall the driver, not deactivate it, from both mouse properties and device manager. I remember in NT4 you had the option to disable a device. Now when Windows starts up it automatically reinstalls the mouse driver after it had been uninstalled. Could there be any registry hack?
Some Dells have the touch pad utilities load at startup go to run and type in msconfig and look at the start up tab.
I went to dell's support site and found a software package for the touchpad, about 5megs in size, wow!
Anyways it has what I need as pictured below:
http://i.pbase.com/o4/68/563668/1/59268498.touchpad.gif
Thanx all for the quick responces.