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Dell Inspiron 8100 Touch Pad is being a PITA

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metroplex

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I use a USB mouse 99% of the time but if I have to take the laptop into the field or use it in the car, the USB mouse can't really be used so I depend on the touch pad.

Unfortunately when I'm typing, I somehow touch the pad and it clicks on certain parts of the screen. How do I set it so that if I attach a USB mouse it disables the pad, or some other way of manually controlling the touch pad w/o installing the Dell software that conflicts with my USB mouse (prevents manual settings for the scroll wheel and button macros).

I called Dell and they basically told me to STFU and reinstall Windows XP because that solves everything.
 
STFU and reinstall Win XP 😛

Seriously, in Control Panel under Mouse, do you have a tab for "Touch Pad" where you can uncheck a box for "Tap off when typing"? I'm sure if that'll work though.

Edit: Now with 100% more pics 😀 Touchpad
 
microAmp: No I don't have the tab. I used to have it when I installed the Dell drivers, but the Dell drivers conflict with the Microsoft Intellimouse drivers that allow me to set the stuff I want for my USB mouse. I told Dell about this and I got the "STFU and reinstall XP" spiel.
 
For the Intellimouse drivers, when you first used the mouse, did you install the drivers off the CD or let Windows use some default stuff? If the former, maybe just use generic drivers for the mouse and install the touchpad drivers?
 
I used the latest Intellimouse drivers from Microsoft.
I want to assign functions to the extra buttons and not just use the generic mouse drivers...

Or are you suggesting using the generic drivers and load the Touchpad stuff, then install the Intellimouse drivers?
 
Well, as far as using generic for the Microsoft mouse and using Touchpad drivers, would be more of a preference of what you want more. Since you use the mouse 99% of the time, it probably won't be worth it.

Another solution that might work is get the latest Intellimouse drivers from Microsoft and find the latest drivers for the Touchpad to see if they can exsist together. If the same touch pad is on my laptop as yours, look for Alps Touch Pad drivers.

Intellimouse 5.2 Drivers

Alps Touchpad
Once again, that is if it's the same touchpad that I have.

If the touchpad direct link doesn't work
 
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