Help with disabling PS/2 mouse/touchpad while typing.

Hi, I have a ABS Mayhem 1011 notebook and sometimes while typing I accidentally touch the touchpad and it's driving me insane. Per the device manager I have a Microsoft PS/2 port mouse (Intellipoint). In the device usage tab in the mouse properties the section to disable it is grayed out. I'm running Windows XP Home.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks guys.

 

See if there are touchpad drivers/control software on your driver disk. I don't have an ABS but my sager comes with a touchpad control utility.

 

I figured out how to disable the PS/2 Touchpad mouse on my Dell Inspiron laptop. Instead, I am using a USB mouse. Here are the instructions:

1) From the Start menu, choose Turn off Computer --> Restart
2) As the system is restarting, press the F12 key to get into the Boot Menu
3) Select BIOS Setup and hit Enter
4) Select Post Behavior and hit Enter
5) Select Mouse/Touchpad and hit Enter
6) Use the left arrow key to select Serial Mouse (i.e. use a serial mouse and disable the internal touchpad), and hit Enter
7) Hit ESC to exit the BIOS setup screen
8) Select Save/Exit and hit Enter

When Windows comes up, your touchpad mouse will be disabled. I assume you can reverse this by following similar steps.

Hope this helps! -BSITstudent

 

I don't think he wants to disable the mouse, just temporarily when he's typing.

If you have a synaptics touchpad, you can do the following.

Under the synaptics touchpad settings in Mouse Properties, there is a category called 'sensitivity'.

Increase the values of PalmCheck/Touch Sensitivity to your liking. That should be what you're looking for.