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Can't disable touch pad

Started by richierein , Mar 16 2011 07:40 PM

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#1 richierein

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Posted 16 March 2011 - 07:40 PM

I have a Dell laptop model 1720. I have tried every suggestion made by numerous posts to google but I'm unable to disable my touch pad. Nothing seems to work. Dell had told me the only way to do this would be to return to factory settings. I originally purchased my computer with Vista and recently upgraded to Windows 7. With Vista, disabling the touchpad only required entering a check in a box. Now that I have Windows 7 the options are different. 'Touch Pad Pal' doesn't work at all.

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Posted 17 March 2011 - 05:41 AM

Perhaps if you install the Windows Vista driver for the touchpad, it will work on Windows 7. That way, you can disable the touchpad via the software Dell provides for you. You can find the download link here.

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Posted 17 March 2011 - 06:17 AM

Have a look in the touchpad settings which is in control panel>Mouse, there should be something about disabling the touchpad. Or you disable it by using the "FN" button.

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Posted 17 March 2011 - 06:39 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the advice so far. I tried to install the Vista Touch Pad Driver. I received an error message "Failed to get current Alps Touch Pad driver version". I don't know what to do now.

Also tried using the Control Panel > Mouse to disable the touch pad driver. That didn't work either. Neither did any of the function keys.

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Posted 17 March 2011 - 10:31 AM

Look in 'Services' and see if it's there. Then set it to disabled, if it is.

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Posted 17 March 2011 - 04:41 PM

Hi again.

Nope. It's not included in services. However, when I click Control Panel>Mouse I get a picture of the touch pad. At the bottom it says 'Click here to adjust touchpad settings'. When I click on it, it just disappears and nothing happens. I tried to add the Vista driver but I got an error message(see above).