[dba-Tech] Vista and the touchpad

Hi John,

In my 2002 Dell laptop using XP, the way to turn off the touchbpad was to go
into the BIOS.  I didn't know of another way - but I didn't look either.

Dan

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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:34 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; Discussion of Hardware
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Subject: [dba-Tech] 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.

-- 
John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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