Wednesday, 17 July 2019

windows 7 - How to disable my netbook's touchpad when a usb mouse is connected


This is the first computer I have ever bought and I couldn't bring it home without a mouse of its own. I'm trying to disable the touchpad but the only option I find is by uninstalling the drivers, which I think is a bit drastic, the buttons for activation and deactivation are disabled (I'm using windows 7 starter).


Do you have any idea of how to disable the touch pad when an external mouse is hooked up?



Answer



It depends on the driver you have, if it is an Synaptics touchpad, you can disable it by right clicking on the taskbar icon.


For Alps, I think you can do it from the mouse properties in Control Panel.


For anything else, or different versions, just hunt around a mix of the above - either the mouse options or taskbar icon.


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