How do I disable the touchpad on my computer?

I have windows 7, it's a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, and I can't find the settings anywhere to disable the friggin' thing.

Other people have tried to help in the past by saying it's in the control settings under moue configuration. It's NOT there. I've searched for it and it's nowhere to be seen.


Can anybody help?





bty, my thumb touched the stupid pad even while writing this and made my start typing over what i've already written. Which is exactly why I hate the stupid thing.

In the control panel, are you viewing all items or just the short list view? It may not show up in the default, compressed list view.

In Device Manager, disable Synaptics Touchpad device.

I do not recommend doing this as you lose the backup to your mouse and will need another mouse in order to get into the Device Manager to turn it back on.

Another example is my notebook mouse lost its ablity to click and drag text on the beach the other day while editing a forums post here. I needed the touchpad to do it until I could get new batteries into the mouse.

You can generally access settings through the control panel. Open up Mouse Settings from the control panel, move over to the Device Settings tab and you should be able access touchpad settings in there.

Depending on the make and model of your laptop you should find options such as "disable touchpad when an external USB pointing device is connected", which would help if you use a USB mouse and want to disable the touchpad when a USB mouse is connected. You should also be able to disable the touchpad entirely from here


Also can try touchfreeze, disables touch pad while you are typing:

Touchfreze

It does work w/ Windows 7.

A Guy

I appreciate the help from everyone, really. Unfortunately, I've tried everything everyone has said (except the fn-f4 guy. I was confused about that one), and nothing worked. I saws no option to change my touchpad settings. And for some weird reason, i couldn't download synaptics.

However, the last poster, A Guy, gave me Touchfreeze. And it's EXACTLY what I needed. This is awesome! So if i forget to bring my mouse to class i can still use my touchpad and it won't interfere with my typing! brilliant! thanks A Guy!

and thanks to everyone for trying to help.

Amthermandes said:

However, the last poster, A Guy, gave me Touchfreeze. And it's EXACTLY what I needed. This is awesome! So if i forget to bring my mouse to class i can still use my touchpad and it won't interfere with my typing! brilliant! thanks A Guy!

and thanks to everyone for trying to help.

Cool, glad I could help. :)

A Guy