Cannot disable touchpad?


  1. glossterline
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    Windows Vista 32 bit
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    Cannot disable touchpad?


    Hi everyone. I'm pretty pleased with W7, having replaced Vista on my Dell Inspiron 1720 (32 bit) laptop. What I cannot do, however, is disable the touch pad - there is no mechanism in the Control Panel. I can only alter settings for the attached mouse. Can you tell me how to disable the touch pad?
    Many thanks,

    Les
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  3. TCG
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    You might need to install the full touchpad driver/utility from Dell in order to do this.
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  4. Britton30
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    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
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    Or the Dell utilities suite.
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