It might be possible that there is a setting in BIOS to permanently disable
this. If so, this would vary from system to system. Other than that if you
have a suitable port you could just leave a little mouse plugged in there
so Windows knows it has one even though the touchpad is disabled.
M. Seelig
At 05:20 AM 11/17/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello all
>
>Does anyone know a way to turn off the touch pad on a laptop.
>
>I'm trying to work out the best way to disable the touch pad on a Gateway
>solo. It belongs to an eleven year old student. She often inadvertently
>brushes or taps the touch pad causing JFW to loose focus or focus on another
>application, or the desktop.
>
>I don't recall the name of the touch pad software, but I have tried the
>following on both the gateway and my Compaq Prosignia, which uses a synaptic
>touch pad, with unsatisfactory results.
>
>I have gone in to device manager and disabled the touch pad, in the
>properties dialog. This causes an error on boot, windows 98 can't find a
>mouse. I have also tried remarking out the lines in system.ini that refer
>to the touch pad with the same results.
>
>The sensitivity of these pads can be reduced, and the tap feature wherein a
>tap on the pad is equivalent to a left mouse click, can be turned off but
>I'd like to be able to completely disable the thing with out creating a
>situation where the student has to press enter to clear error messages
>before speech starts.
>
>Best regards
>
>Gator
>
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