Disabling touch sensitive mouse on laptop

Greenlizard0 · 8 Aug 2007 at 18:37

Is there a way to disable the finger touch pad on my laptop. I hate it and have plugged a mouse into the usb port instead.

Thanks.

Doddy · 8 Aug 2007 at 18:58

usually you have a key on the keyboard "FN" you press that and another key usually coloured blue with a picture of a little hand in a square to turn it off.

Greenlizard0 · 8 Aug 2007 at 19:07

I don't have anything like that unfortunetly. There's nothing in the bios, and there's nothing in device manager as well...

NightShadow · 8 Aug 2007 at 19:59

This is a feature i like about my mates HP lappy, I dont think my Dell has this opton though either. If you actually never plan on using it at all just take the keyboard off and you should be able to unplug the ribbon cable for it (the touch pad that is not the keyboard obv.

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semi-pro waster · 8 Aug 2007 at 20:13

I know you have looked but sometimes in the bios it is called something odd like 'legacy pointing device' or similar so it might be worth checking again just in case.

HP laptops are indeed quite good for this as they have a simple button beside the trackpad, not that it helps you much.

Greenlizard0 · 8 Aug 2007 at 20:38

semi-pro waster said:
I know you have looked but sometimes in the bios it is called something odd like 'legacy pointing device' or similar so it might be worth checking again just in case.

HP laptops are indeed quite good for this as they have a simple button beside the trackpad, not that it helps you much.

It's a Fujitsu Siemens laptop. Their website hasn't been helpful at all.

I have looked already in the bios and it really is lacking in options, about the only thing I can change is the boot order and a few power saving options. :/

kvfb97 · 8 Aug 2007 at 23:40

On my Inspiron 6400, If you installed the drivers that came with the laptop it gave you the option to switch it off when you plugged in an external mouse..

Greenlizard0 · 9 Aug 2007 at 00:21

kvfb97 said:
On my Inspiron 6400, If you installed the drivers that came with the laptop it gave you the option to switch it off when you plugged in an external mouse..

Hmm....I have all the drivers installed (I presume) from the CD's that were provided for me but there still isn't an option in there.

It really should be, a quick google suggests that I'm not the only person who suffers from this problem and can't fix it :/

Greenlizard0 · 9 Aug 2007 at 13:34

Bump

topshot · 9 Aug 2007 at 13:40

on my work laptop i can disable it through control panel >> mouse etc

LizardKing · 9 Aug 2007 at 15:04

disable the drivers in device manager, not a fix but should work just as well

paradigm · 9 Aug 2007 at 15:07

Control Panel > Mouse > Device Settings:

Tick "Disable internal pointing device when external USB pointing device is attached"

If you don't have a "device settings" tab in your "Mouse" applet in control panel, then you haven't got the synaptics touchpad software installed.

Greenlizard0 · 9 Aug 2007 at 15:21

paradigm said:
Control Panel > Mouse > Device Settings:

Tick "Disable internal pointing device when external USB pointing device is attached"

If you don't have a "device settings" tab in your "Mouse" applet in control panel, then you haven't got the synaptics touchpad software installed.

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