[Gibble]

ARGH! Constantly while typing I brush against it and the cursor moves on me and I end up typing ... who knows where on the screen! In XP I could go in and disable the touchpad, and then re-enable it. Unfortunately, in Vista, when I go to CP->Mouse->Hardware and select the device properties on the "PS/2 Compatible Mouse" (aka the touchpad) the "Disable" button is disabled (how ironically inconvenient)

90% of the time I just want to use my mouse since I'm at a table. But occasionally I do want to be able to turn on the touchpad to use it. So I don't want to uninstall it through Device Manager. I just want to disable it.

Any thoughts. Seriously, why would they disable that button, when you could do it in XP. ARGH! Where was the QA team on this one?

Thanks all.
-C

[Gibble]

Anyone

[Helter23]

try right clicking on your desktop, go to personailze, then click on mouse pointers...then select the devices tab and you should be able to disable the touch pad.

[Gibble]

As I explained, the disable button is disabled for the touchpad.

[DoubleHelix]

You can disable it in Device Manager. You don't have to uninstall it.

[Gibble]

No I can't. When I right click on the touchpad the disable option isn't even there, but on my external mouse, it is and can be disabled.

[Gibble]

If it's any help, the model of my laptop is a Gateway mx6708

[Gibble]

Any other ideas?

[Gibble]

Why didn't I think of installing the Synaptic drivers sooner. That solves it. You can disable the double tap, or the touchpad completely.

[JohnWill]

I believe I posted that in another thread, was that yours too?

[Gibble]

nope.

[JohnWill]

You're right, it was someone else, I just found his thread. I obviously didn't see this thread.