[dba-Tech] Vista and the touchpad

What if you just rename the driver?  Then you could name it back and reboot
if you really needed the touchpad.  

Max is going to Northwestern in the fall - Medill school of Journalism.  He
got his list of hardware and software required by the school.  In addition
to a digital video camera and a digital still camera, he needs a laptop.
They have some very specific specs for this LT one of which is WXP -
specifically NOT Vista. (And NOT Mac BTW which I was happy to see.)


Rocky Smolin
Beach Access Software
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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:34 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; Discussion of Hardware
and Software issues
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.

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John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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