[dba-Tech] Vista and the touchpad

John

This old Tosh laptop has a hardware panel that disables the Touchpad. 
Good thing too, since after a couple of years the touchpad became a 
random pointing device. No such OS-independent panel in your laptop.

 >Microsoft must hire a special brand of idiots.
 >Nobody's idiots can match Microsoft's idiots.

Arrogance more than idiocy?

PB

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jwcolby wrote:
> 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.
>
>