Disable the touchpad in vista

Gerpheide designed the first touch pad in In , Apple became the first company to patent and use the touch pad in its Powerbook laptops. Since then, the touch pad has become the most popular cursor control device in laptops. A trackball is used on several laptops. We are professional How-to content writers. As a tech enthusiast and geek, we love to write and share articles about different operating systems such as Android, Windows, macOS, iOS, and some other products like a smartwatch and smart TV.

I have tried uninstalling the touchpad, but this requires a restart of the computer, which re-installs the damn thing, so I have wasted my time and am right back where I started from.

How can I delete the touchpad once and for all? Using a Logtec M wireless trackball with the updated drivers for multiple wireless devices. My touchpad was automatically disabled until I believe the June update. What gives? This very annoying when trying to type. The only option I can see is to uninstall the touchpad and I am not sure that I should mess with that. How can I turn off the Elan touchpad on my new HP laptop. The Disable option is greyed out.

I use an external mouse all the time and the touchpad cannot be shut off. How to disable touchpad on hp laptop da0xxx. Fireplace is looking inviting for this thing! No answers anywhere that can be done. Can anyone help me before I lose it? Doubleclick on it and change the 0 zero to 1 one close the registration file and reboot. Synaptic touchpad controls cannot be accessed through the control panel.

Must access the app directly. On MS Start, entered Synaptic touchpad and it popped up with the app. Then it has the spot to click on to disable it. View solution in original post. It should be easy to disable the touchpad if you are using a USB mouse, if you have the Dell tochpad drivers installed.

In the dialog box there should be a tab for Dell Touchpad, if you select there you should get a new dialog box with the Dell Logo and it should say Dell Touchpad. If you check this box, it will automaticly disable the tochpad when a USB mouse is plugged in and revert back to the touchpad when you unplug the mouse. If I click on the 2nd one "Driver", it shows 5 buttons i. Thus, I'm not able tu use option 4 to deactivate the selected device! I put my feet in your path but, as you see, the way is slightly different my translation from french Panneau de Configuration to English Control Panel is probably poor but it doesn't explain the differences!

DeActivate" In my opinion, these differences could be due this : 1. I'm running Vista My previous post did focus on the fact that the checkbox option to disable the touchpad was in light grey ie couldn't be "used". Any further help? It very well could be a driver issue.

My touchpad is a Synaptics based Dell touchpad rather than an Alps. Since you said this driver is the pre-installed one, I would first look to Dell's support site to see if an updated driver has been posted for your laptop. I'm not very familiar with the Alps touchpad, as all the laptops I have had from Dell in the last few years have been Synaptics.

Don't be sorry, dear slowecsl : you couldn't do more and I thank you! I'm going to follow your suggestion and report back this Alps' problem to the Dell's support site that I already contacted a week ago! I cross my fingers, hoping that this time they will take their responsibilities Many thanks for your reply dear alsitn, My next post, dated 03 Dec PM, described exactly how I reached the "Deactivate" button in the Control Panel : this button is shown in light grey, telling the user it is in a "sleep mode", i.

I also tell the reader what the version is of the Alps Driver : 7. How better could I describe the problem? You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter ohadbenita Start date Mar 13, Status Not open for further replies. I'd be glad for any tips as how to disable the built-in touchpad. Thanks, Ohad. I;m going to take a stab at this because the touchpad isn't a 'Vista' feature, but one for a laptop. It is also loading at startup. Instead, please click on Selective Startup then the Startup tab.

Thanks Bobbye I appreciate the detailed answer, Ohad. You're welcome. Please let us know if you need more help disabling the touchpad. Similar threads S.