[AccessD] Vista and the touchpad

Foote, Chris Chris.Foote at uk.thalesgroup.com
Tue May 13 08:57:36 CDT 2008


That's interesting William!

I've got a two week old Acer Aspire 5315 running Vista Home Basic, and Fn +
F7 seems to lock the touch pad. Thanks for that!

Regards

Chris F

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William
> Hindman
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:35 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Vista and the touchpad
> 
> 
> ...both of my laptops come with a function key combo to turn 
> the touchpad 
> on/off from the keyboard.
> 
> William
> "The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, 
> ignorance may deride 
> it, but in the end; there it is."
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> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:20 AM
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Vista and the touchpad
> 
> > You da man Karen!  I was able to turn off the touch pad 
> entirely in the
> > BIOS.  that means that I will have to go in there to turn it on if I
> > need it (stupid really) but at least it is disabled and I can get on
> > with my life.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > John W. Colby
> > www.ColbyConsulting.com
> >
> >
> > Karen Rosenstiel wrote:
> >> Look in the bios. Should be a choice of using the laptop 
> >> touchpad/keyboard
> >> or periperals, or both.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Karen Rosenstiel
> >> Seattle WA USA
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> Discussion of 
> >> Hardware
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> >> Subject: [AccessD] Vista and the touchpad
> >>
> >> Microsoft must hire a special brand of idiots.
> >>
> >> I am not finding ANY way to turn off the touchpad in 
> Vista.  I have a
> >> bluetooth mouse which is what I use.  The touchpad is 
> still enabled, and
> >> even worse is set to use a tap as a mouse click, so my 
> thumb is always
> >> touching the touchpad as I type and the mouse gets moved 
> off to someplace
> >> where it is not supposed to be.
> >>
> >> In XP you could simply select the touchpad and disable it.  Vista 
> >> apparently
> >> thinks the touchpad is so critical that they completely 
> prevent you from
> >> disabling it without uninstalling the driver (which I am 
> about to do).
> >>
> >> I NEED THIS TURNED OFF, but it would be nice to be able to 
> get it back if 
> >> I
> >> ever need to use my laptop without the mouse.
> >>
> >> I went out and found a driver specifically for the 
> touchpad but even that
> >> does not (AFAICT) allow you to just disable the damned thing.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how to just disable the damned thing?
> >>
> >> Microsoft must hire a special brand of idiots.  Nobody's 
> idiots can match
> >> Microsoft's idiots.
> >>
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