How to disable the touch pad Thread poster: Ines Burrell
| Ines Burrell United Kingdom Local time: 00:11 Member (2004) English to Latvian + ... | Quamrul Islam Local time: 05:11 Member (2009) English to Bengali + ... Here's how you can disable the touch pad | Jun 24, 2010 |
Dear Colleague, Well, I use the Alps Pointing Device, but my OS is Windows XP. In my case, I right click the Touch pad icon near the clock in the bottom-right corner of the screen, then click "Mouse Properties." When a dialog box appears, I click the "USB Mouse connection" tab. Then I have three options to choose: 1. Touch pad to remain active alongside the external mouse, 2. Touch pad to become automatically disabled when the external mouse in connected, and 3. T... See more Dear Colleague, Well, I use the Alps Pointing Device, but my OS is Windows XP. In my case, I right click the Touch pad icon near the clock in the bottom-right corner of the screen, then click "Mouse Properties." When a dialog box appears, I click the "USB Mouse connection" tab. Then I have three options to choose: 1. Touch pad to remain active alongside the external mouse, 2. Touch pad to become automatically disabled when the external mouse in connected, and 3. Touch pad to remain permanently disabled. You may try to find if such options are available in Windows 7. Best wishes ! -Quamrul Islam
[Edited at 2010-06-24 18:49 GMT] ▲ Collapse | | | Ines Burrell United Kingdom Local time: 00:11 Member (2004) English to Latvian + ... TOPIC STARTER Mine is different | Jun 24, 2010 |
Quamrul Islam wrote: You may try to find if such options are available in Windows 7. Best wishes ! Windows 7 unfortunately does not have this option, that is why I was posting the question. A simple thing really, but they have thrown it out of this OS. | | |
Hold Fn button and press F7. Fn is located in low right corner of the keyboard. | |
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opolt Germany Local time: 01:11 English to German + ... Convenient option for the Linux users out there | Jun 24, 2010 |
Just to let you know: If you're using GNOME 2.28 or above (e.g. Ubuntu 9.10 or above), one of the options in the mouse config panel is to disable the touchpad when typing. Yes, you heard that right: as soon as you start typing, it gets disabled, and automagically resumes when you stop. Very useful to keep it from interfering and still keep it running. I've tested this, and it works like a charm. | | | Ines Burrell United Kingdom Local time: 00:11 Member (2004) English to Latvian + ... TOPIC STARTER Not on my laptop | Jun 24, 2010 |
Karletto wrote: Hold Fn button and press F7. Fn is located in low right corner of the keyboard. I have the screen linked to F7, none of my keys have the touchpad symbol on them. F7 works only on certain makes of laptops. | | | Ines Burrell United Kingdom Local time: 00:11 Member (2004) English to Latvian + ... TOPIC STARTER Problem solved | Jun 25, 2010 |
It turned out that I had to use Vaio Control Centre and there was an option to disable the pointing device. Quite simple really but not so obvious. | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » How to disable the touch pad Protemos translation business management system | Create your account in minutes, and start working! 3-month trial for agencies, and free for freelancers!
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