Specifically, I'm on a Dell Inspiron 1525. I'd like to disable the touchpad so that I can re-enable if my mouse were to run out of batteries (so physically breaking the connection to the motherboard or uninstalling the driver will not be the best options). In Control Panel when I go to "Mouse" and find the touch pad there is no disable option. Any ideas?
Edit: I am on Windows 7. There is a driver on the Dell site that might allow an option to disable but I cannot install it on Win7.
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Right click touchpad icon in system tray(looks like monitor with flash green dot)>pointing device properties>devices tab,touchpad- click disable>touchpad buttons-click disable>click the "disable Touchpad/Stick when a USB pointing device is present".Click apply>click O.K.
sestocker : Forgot to mention I am on Windows 7. I don't see touchpad icon in the system tray like in XP.From UndertheFold -
You can try downloading the Windows Vista drivers for your mouse/touchpad
It ought to work for Windows 7. When I upgrade my Windows Vista to Windows 7 Beta or RC, it retained the Vista drivers.
The touchpad driver should then provide a Dell Touchpad systray icon that allows you to Disable Touchpad / Pointing Stick when external USB mouse is present.
From icelava -
Many laptop models have options in the BIOS for you to disable pointing devices. Not sure if the 1525 does or not (I hate Dell's web site...)
From squillman -
You can install the Dell driver on Windows 7 using the compatibility mode. I used the Vista Service Pack 2 mode, and it went just fine. And the option to disable the touchpad works well.
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Under Linux on my netbook I use syndaemon to disable the touchpad responding to clicks while I'm typing, which gives almost the best of both worlds.
http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/ seems to be a Windows implementation of the same idea, though I have not got around to trying it yet so can't comment on how well it works.
From David Spillett
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