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What is the easiest way to disable the touch pad on a laptop?

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Mar 15, 202616734 views
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What is the easiest way to disable the touch pad on a laptop? I have a laptop which lacks a means to turn off the touchpad with a simple Function key sequence. I would like to disable the touchpad so that it stops detecting movement when I am typing. This is quite an annoyance as it sometimes resul…

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The simplest is often the best method. All (almost) windows-based laptops have touchpad / touchstyk running on drivers that are based on synaptics. These are easily accessible from : Control Panel > Mouse > Choose Tab: Device Settings Here you can D…

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