Solved Turning off touchpad

[StupidDude]

I just got a new laptop, switched to Windows 7, and this touch pad is driving me nuts. I went through this process on my old laptop, and it was simply an issue of getting a different driver, but I don't know which. Can you help?



I am using a HP Envy 17 j120us with Windows 7

 

[maxie]

Hi there .. You need the Synaptics TouchPad Driver ... From the Link below ..

Software & driver downloads HP ENVY 17-j120us Notebook PC | HP® Support

 

[Kari]

Synaptics Touchpad drivers installed, do the following:

• Open Mouse Properties (Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Mouse)
• Select Device Settings tab
• Select Disable internal pointing device when external USB pointing device is attached:
  
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This will disable touchpad always when a USB mouse is connected and enable it again as soon as a USB mouse is disconnected. If USB mouse is present at boot, touchpad will be automatically disabled.

Kari