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Thread: Is it possible to disable the touch mouse pad in a laptop?[Resolved]

  1. Nov 23rd, 2004, 02:22 PM #1
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    Resolved Is it possible to disable the touch mouse pad in a laptop?[Resolved]

    I'm using normal mouse and wanna disable the touch built-in mouse pad. I checked device manager but it's not there . How can I disable it?
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  2. Nov 23rd, 2004, 03:20 PM #2
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    my Dell has an icon in the .... small icon place ... next to the clock.

    Control Panel >> mouse didn't turn up anything?
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    Originally posted by JPicasso
    my Dell has an icon in the .... small icon place ... next to the clock.
    Control Panel >> mouse didn't turn up anything?
    in the Control Panel
    "Mice and other pointing devices"----->HID Compliant mouse

    I disabled it but it's still working . I just can't find anything related to it there ...
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  4. Nov 23rd, 2004, 07:15 PM #4
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    Some bios' allow you to disable it there... i supposed you already check there of course.

    Otherwise, just machine a small metal plate and putty glue it to that area of your laptop.
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    add another mouse, and disable the device?
    you might have to reboot.
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  7. Nov 23rd, 2004, 08:23 PM #6
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    I have a bar directly above the mousepad that toggles it on and off. A message appears on the screen to confirm the selection.
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    Originally posted by dglienna
    add another mouse, and disable the device?
    you might have to reboot.
    I have one mouse now that's why I want to disable the touch pad.
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  9. Nov 23rd, 2004, 08:41 PM #8
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    Originally posted by nemaroller
    Some bios' allow you to disable it there... i supposed you already check there of course.

    Otherwise, just machine a small metal plate and putty glue it to that area of your laptop.
    I didn't check it yet . I really forgot about this .
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    Check the manual for your laptop, sometimes it's a special key combo using the Fn key, like, on my old one, Fn+T disabled it.
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  12. Nov 24th, 2004, 05:24 AM #10
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    You can do it in Device Manager.
    I don't live here any more.
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  13. Nov 24th, 2004, 01:35 PM #11
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    Originally posted by wossname
    You can do it in Device Manager.
    No , I couldn't find it anywhere in Device Manager . I'll check in the BIOS setup now .
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  14. Nov 24th, 2004, 02:14 PM #12
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    I did it from the BIOS .
    Thanks everyone .
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