Is there a way to turn the center mouse pad off on my laptop?

Question

It's really getting on my nerves. My wrist keeps grazing it whenever I type and it winds up highlighting and erasing all the stuff I just typed.

Answer 1

If you go into the mouse properties, you can disable the touchpad, but do this with an external mouse and keyboard attached

Answer 2

You might have to download the driver for it. On my Compaq Presario 1245, the touchpad isnt even recognized by the system, but it is fully function and works even when I plug an external mouse in. But with the driver installed, there is a control center for it under mouse properties, and there is a setting for disabling it while a mouse is plugged in. Also, you can set it to where your wrists wont make it do anything, cause it can tell the difference between a pointed touch of a finger, and broad hand contact. Im not sure what kind of touchpad you have, hopefully it is listed somewhere in your system info, or maybe you can find out on the web. If not, look up Synaptics Touchpad driver on the web, thats what mine is...maybe it'll work on yours.

Answer 3

if its a Lenovo or IBM laptop
power off
power back on
at the logo press F1 and go in bios
under advance and mouse
go mouse pad and put disable
F10 to save and exit

Answer 4

If it's a Toshiba, press FN, keep it in, then press F9. To turn the touchpad back on, do the same thing.

Answer 5

i dunno what do to on a dell, but if its an apple, just go to system preferences, click mouse, then click ignore trackpad. i did this once by accident and i didnt have a real mouse which sucked but thats what ya gotta do.

Answer 6

well it wouldn't turnit off but if youplug a real mouse into it then you can use both.