Laptop Touchpads

[sourboy]

Anyone know if it's possible to disable a touchpad on a laptop? I always plug my mouse in, but the touchpad stays active, so if my palm brushes it while I'm typing, sometimes action is taken on my desktop unintentionally. I use WinXP, btw.

thanks

 

[t0mme]

There usually is some kind of key combination, usually with the special key found on most laptops. For Acer it's Fn+F6

 

[Xeer]

Try your setup options in your BIOS. On my Dell Latittude C600 (yeah, I know, old - but it's in great shape and does everything I need a laptop to do) I press F2 when the system is booting up, and on about the third or fourth screen of settings there's one for the keyboard/touchpad. I can disable the touchpad completely, disable when a mouse is plugged in, or keep both the touchpad and mouse active.

 

[Imrahil91]

On most computers it's possible to disable it in mouse options on the control panel.

 

[ggganz]

Usually there's an icon in the taskbar unless you've taken it away previously. Double click and there may be an option to turn it off if a mouse is connected, but sometimes it turns it off even if I have no mouse connected. There will definetly be an option to turn it off, though.