The mousepad on my laptop is very sensitive and the slightest touch moves my cursor wherever it is located and its so frustrating. I have to be very caution about my hand placement and often find myself messing up and touching it.
2006-12-19 14:19:00 · 6 answers · asked by Just asking 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Mine has a button at the top of the mouse pad. Click the button and an orange light engages.
2006-12-19 14:31:41 · answer #1 · answered by Martin Chemnitz 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Common problem.
A lot of laptops come with a button right on the laptop that disables the touchpad. A big majority of them, actually. Usually the button is to the north of the touchpad, and has a button that has a picture of a rectangle with a line through it.
I'm assuming this isn't the case.
You can also take a software approach to the problem. You can visit your manufacturers website, such as, www.hp.com or www.toshiba.com or whatever - head off to the "Drivers and Downloads" section. Enter in your model information and download any utilities they have for touchpad, or updates to those utilities.
Within those utilities you may be able to easily disable it. (Often the manufacturers have an icon in your taskbar, next to the clock -- or offer a "hotkey" for on off. Or some even offer a Fn key (or function key) -- the 'light blue' or 'extra' pictures you may see on your keyboard) However, you didn't mention your laptop manufactuer or model, so can't really comment further here, except to say they might all be the case and you'll need to look. A Fn key is pretty common (but also software dependant that those utilities are installed)
Another way, is taking a WindowsOS approach to it, but I wouldn't recommend it. Through Windows you can certainly disable the touchpad.... ... the other dudes here told you how..... but neglected to mention to get back to it, to enable it, would entail using keyboard control to navigate back to Device manager to enable it (which would be a big pain to do, much less explain)
2006-12-19 22:26:03 · answer #2 · answered by argile556733 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right click the my computer icon and choose properties - then choose the hardware tab - then choose device manager - scroll through the list to your pointing device and right click - choose properties and choose the disable button...click ok ok ok
the other guy doesn't realize you'll probably plug in a mouse.
sometimes plugging a ps/2 mouse into the laptop auto disables the touchpad(as long as you have a ps/2 port on the laptop) but usb mice wont auto disable.
2006-12-19 22:26:20 · answer #3 · answered by T G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi!
Do you have a button somewhere above or below the mousepad? Click it and it should stop the pad from operating.
Grins!
2006-12-19 22:26:59 · answer #4 · answered by princessmeltdown 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you go to control panel
click the printer & other hardware.
click mouse.
then adjust the movement of the cursor.
i think your cursor movement is very fast because it has been given the highest movement.
make it what ever movement you prefer.
you can't disable it. it's part & parcel of laptop
2006-12-19 22:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My best advice would be to contact the place of purchase, or you could buy a mouse, plug it in and it will stop the sensitvity in your mouse pad, YOU will be in control
2006-12-19 22:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by disturbedxxcalmness 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋