How do I deactive the thumb pad on Dell 700m?
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  1. April 25th, 2006, 07:54 PM #1
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    Angry How do I deactive the touch pad on Dell 700m?

    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?



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    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.
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    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?
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    Some Dells have the touch pad utilities load at startup go to run and type in msconfig and look at the start up tab.
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  7. April 26th, 2006, 11:23 PM #6
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    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:



    Thanx all for the quick responces.
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