WiFi mouse has taken over my laptop

[nrobidoux]

I forgot why I put it in but I did. I put in a wifi mouse into my CyberPower PC laptop using Win 8.1. Now that I did that, it does not matter if the mouse wifi dongle is inserted my touchpad is disabled.

Googling for a remedy I found somewhere it said to delete HID devices (or something named similarly) but I have a few besides my mouse.

What's the best way to figure out which is the wifi mouse?

 

[mikeymikec]

Usually touchpads have a setting that automatically disables it when a USB mouse is connected. The setting is usually off by default (so both devices stay active) in my experience.

I would expect to find that setting in Control Panel > Mouse > <tab labelled with brand of touchpad> > Settings.

I'm wondering whether your touchpad might also have a setting (HP laptops sometimes have a touch panel near the corner of the touchpad that lights up when pressed and disables the pad) to disable it by other means, such as a keyboard combination (e.g. Fn+F6).

 

[corkyg]

What's the best way to figure out which is the wifi mouse?

Explore the properties of each. You can also pull the mouse's Wi-Fi dongle and see which one goes away.

 

[JeffMD]

Usually it is in the bios, too.

 

[nrobidoux]

After probably a year of this I really wanted to find the solution today.... and I did. Feel like such a noob. Basically in the process of trying to re-find the page through Google I found another.....

Basically said on the F6 key there's a picture of a touchpad with a line through it. Press Fn + F6.... mine was on F3.

Worked... well worked enough. Have to do it each time I remove the dongle... haven't tried to see what happens after reboot w/o dongle.

...And apparently I don't do much reading Lol, as I look over the replies once more and see mikeymike said the same thing.

Explore the properties of each. You can also pull the mouse's Wi-Fi dongle and see which one goes away.

It seems there is quite a few entries with duplicate names and this is what confused me. Under Control Pad -> Hardware -> Mouse -> Hardware Tab w/o the dongle there is one entry for my touchpad and one for "HID-compliant mouse." When I insert the dongle I have two "HID-compliant mouse." In the device manager like 5 entries appear when I insert the dongle, most are dupes. And some that seem would refer to the dongle are present in both cases (HID-compliant wireless radio controls).

Quite pleased I'm not stuck with mouse. Perhaps next year I will get the gumption to really fix it.