How to disable touchpad on Dell inspiron 15 5000 from BIOS,

Steve Van Wijnen

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the touchpad seems to be defective and is jumping all over the place i need a way to disable it from the bios as i use a vm and dont have access to disable hardware...there doesnt seem to be an F key to do this either, hoping i can avoid taking the pc apart and repairing issue or unplugging touchpad
 

Steve Van Wijnen

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Thank You, but i am using a VM (VMWARE remote desktop) and dont have access to those options, i can easily disable the touchpad on my local machine but using a remote desktop my mouse jumps around regardless of the fact i use a USB mouse and do not touch the touchpad if it cannot be done through bios it looks like i have to open up laptop and unplug touchpad....
 

Cazauxx

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You can always disable the touchpad in the VMWARE settings
 

Steve Van Wijnen

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this is a VM accessed for work, from my computer at home.... as i have said i do not have access to these options on the VMware desktop...
if you know how to bypass that plz advise....

Steve
 

Cazauxx

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If your saying the mouse is lagging or jumping try downloading VMWARE TOOLS
Do this by going in up the top VM, Install VMWARE Tools
This is how I stopped the mouse lagging on my Windows 10 vm
Hopefully this helps
 

Steve Van Wijnen

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thank you for trying to help but as i have said i have limited access on the remote desktop hardware settings and i do not have any 'toolbar' at the top of the corporate VM, even if i did i do not have permissions to install software as you suggested as this is a corporate Virtual desktop i am accessing, this is why i am attempting to disable the touchpad before windows launches.....