Re: disabling touchpad

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BTW, did you say you went into Control Panel to try there? On just about
every laptop I have worked on, you could go into Control Panel > Mouse >
either Hardware or Device Properties tab to disable the touch pad.

"Go Tyler" <wasting_your_time@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eP$rhomBGHA.3496@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Go into windows Device Manager. Look under Mouse and other Pointing
> Devices. You will not be able to disable this in Device Manager like you
> can do with other devices. For the touch pad, you will have to do this:
>
> Under the Mouse and other Pointing Devices tab, click on touch pad
> properties, then click on advanced settings tab and then where it says
> "wheel detection" you need to select "detection disabled."
>
> Then reboot.
>
>
> "jlf44" <jlf44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F7000474-1C47-49AD-BBEA-F4416E48C35D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> What key or button?
>>
>> I even webt into BIOS and could not find the command.
>>
>> Dell Inspiron 6000
>>
>> "Go Tyler" wrote:
>>
>>> There should be a key or a button on the keyboard to also let you
>>> disable
>>> it. You know, knowing which laptop you have sure would be useful here.
>>>
>>> "jlf44" <jlf44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:05E4D9E3-1F57-44F1-88DD-2B4D368CBF32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >I am unable to disable my touchpad on my laptop...obviously. I read in
>>> >the
>>> > owner's manual to go into "printers and other hardware" then "mouse"
>>> > and
>>> > then
>>> > to choose the "touch pad" tab and adjust the settings there. But,
>>> > when I
>>> > go
>>> > into the mouse file, there is no "touch pad" tab. What to do now??
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>


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