Disabling the touchpad

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Aaaargh! One of those problems you feel you should be able to solve
easily!!! Been googling with no luck.

I have a Microstar laptop with XP installed on it, and a MS Optical
Wheel mouse, plug into the PS/2 port, with the green USB->PS/2
adapter. I have the up-to-date mouse drivers installed.

Naturally, when I type, I accidently hit the touchpad from time to
time, sending the cursor somewhere I don't want it. How can I disable
the touchpad when the mouse is plugged in?
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My Compaq laptop has a feature called "External mouse overrides
built-in Touchpad" under a tab called "More Features." Try looking for
that under Mouse Properties.

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On 4 Feb 2005 16:40:35 -0800, "PunterPFC" <punterfpc@gmail.com> wrote:

>Cut a small pad out of a material that will not allow yout touchpad to
>detect your finger though, possibly a piece of thin rubber padding, and
>place it on the pad. This way, nothing you do, will cause the touchpad
>to react.
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>That's the ghetto way...

I have just cut out a square of plastic and placed it over the pad.
This is about as crude a solution as I can think of, and can't believe
I need to do that for a new laptop!!!
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On 5 Feb 2005 12:34:17 -0800, "Jeff Sutter" <lurkeroo@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Deep Foiled Malls wrote:
>> I have just cut out a square of plastic and placed it over the pad.
>> This is about as crude a solution as I can think of, and can't
>believe
>> I need to do that for a new laptop!!!
>
>Believe it. The folks who make the design decisions clearly aren't
>touch-typists. Instead, they're simply copycats -- when the
>competition runs off a cliff like mythical lemmings, they follow the
>herd.
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>Even IBM, legend for approximating typeable keyboards, has been
>infected. The majority of their new laptops feature the touchpad
>obstacle.
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>I'm all for choice. It wouldn't take much for laptop engineers to make
>the touchpad, trackpoint, and blasted wristguard/palmrest completely
>optional, rather than forcing us to accept their world view along with
>their awful keyboards.

And while they're at it, move the Fn key up into the top corner
somewhere, along with Caps Lock key, and add 4 extra buttons in easy
reach for Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo.
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Frank Schweppe wrote:

> Ah, but Big Blue *did* provide for a simple little icon in the Thinkpad
> taskbar that will allow you to switch off the touchpad, or the trackpoint
> stick for that matter, at a single click. That sort of thing is what makes
> the difference between Thinkpads and other laptops.

And let's not forget that IBM offers the Thinkpad palmrest WITHOUT the
touchpad as a customer replaceable part for the price of 10
euros/dollars. Now that's what makes the difference!

Stavros