Disable my freakin laptop touchpad!

[edro]

When I type... my thumbs are hovering right above the touchpad. Every once in a while, they hit it and the cursor jumps accross the screen and screw everything up.

I am sure you have encountered it before.

I cannot disable the default PS/2 (touchpad) mouse in the device manager, but I can disable my USB mouse.

I could disable it in the BIOS (probably), but I use it every once in a while.

Is there a little program that will allow me to disable the mouse when I want, then re-enable it later on?

Thanks!

 

[WobbleWobble]

Which laptop do you have? My old HP Pavilion had a dedicated button right above the touchpad to disable it. My new Toshiba Satellite has a Function key combination to disable its touchpad.

 

[Kevin]

Some touchpad utilities have a sort of "time bomb" which will disable the touchpad when the keyboard is being used...

 

[Dacalo]

i know what you mean, i have an old laptop that does that... i just have a mouse connected to it and it disables it

 

[igowerf]

There's an option to disable the touchpad in my mouse driver control panel on my Inspiron 8200.

 

[edro]

Compaq 710US. I don't have any of the original software installed. Maybe if I download the drivers..... it will have a disable function or somethin.

 

[zsouthboy]

Originally posted by: edro13
Compaq 710US. I don't have any of the original software installed. Maybe if I download the drivers..... it will have a disable function or somethin.

I have the same problem... but i don't like installing those wierd touchpad drivers... there ought to be a program somewhere that will have the computer ignore the touchpad when you tell it to? hmm.