win 7 and Alps Alps TouchPad, v.7.2.101.104, A01

[maha2600]

I have a Studio 1535 that originally came with Vista and the IT guys at my university upgraded to Windows 7. I really want to be able to deactiviate the Alps Alps TouchPad, v.7.2.101.104, A01 as I use a wireless mouse and the touch pad highly annoys me. I tried to d/l the driver for the TouchPad but it wasn't compatible. I was hoping on of you fine people could direct me to a compatible driver.

 

[boohbah]

have you checked to see if the touchpad drivers are in device manager.
also if you type mouse in the start search then click the result, there may be a device settings tab that allows you to disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in.

 

[maha2600]

I looked there and it seems that I need to download that driver but that driver wasn't compatible with win 7.

 

[boohbah]

see if you can update the driver from device manager by right clicking the alps driver.

 

[maha2600]

I have checked to see if the touchpad drivers are in device manager and I can't find them. they aren't under mouse and pointers or keyboards or anything it seems.