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I don't see anywhere in device manager where I can disable my touchpad. I do a lot of editing and the touchpad gets in the way of my palm and sends the cursor flying. Can't deal with it. I have an external mouse and when plugged in it works, but touchpad still on also, so not fixing my problem
Please help.
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Download TouchFreeze. This freebie shuts down the pad when you begin typing. If it doesn't work with your pad, search the web for other programs like it.
OMG!! IT'S PERFECT. MY EDITING IS BACK UP TO SPEED AND I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR INPUT AND TIMELINESS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH
DFROST2123
I like TOUCHFREEZE but read:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100319210113AAzCw6i
THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST. IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE A BACK UP PLAN. I AGREE.
I DID GO TO THE SITE THAT YOU SAID TO READ AND I DID DOWNLOAD THE TOUCHPAD DRIVER FROM DELL, BUT STILL DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT OPTIONS TO USE IT OR IT JUST WASN'T USER FRIENDLY ENOUGH.
ANYWAY, WENT AND DOWNLOADED TOUCHFREEZE. I LOVE IT. IT WORKS GREAT.
SO PLEASED FOR THE QUICK REPLY AND HELPFUL INPUT.
THANKS SO MUCH
DFROST2123
Go into the BIOS F2 Go down to next to last then change the PS2/Touchpad to serial mouse It has three options for the touchpad. the left most has to do with serial mouse, the middle has to do with ps2 and the right is the system default. The first will only use the mouse only turn off the touchpad, The middle while using the mouse turn off touchpad. The last you can use both the mouse and the touchpad and is the default. I did check the first one and my usb wireless mouse works and it turn off the touchpad.
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