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    Disable Touchpad on the Acer Aspire 5315

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jfaulkner44, May 15, 2009.

  1. jfaulkner44

    jfaulkner44 Newbie

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    I am trying to help a friend that has the subject laptop. Just to provide some history. The laptop was given to her by her son and it had Vista installed. At that time, we disabled the touchpad. Since then, she had Vista removed and XP Home Edition installed. We cannot find a place to disable the touchpad and Acer will not help.

    Please is there anyone out there that can help with this? Keep in mind, I am probably a low intermediate computer user, but can follow directions as long as they are not techy. My friend is probably a medium beginner, again she can follow directions.

    Note: clicking the fn+f7 keys do not work. I also read on one of my searches that a generic driver could be downloaded from Synaptics, but I didn't want to have her do that unless it was the right thing to do. I don't want to cause more problems.

    Thanks so much,
    Judy F. :(
    SW Florida - USA
     
    jfaulkner44, May 15, 2009
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  2. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    " disable the touchpad "

    Thats not a usual request :D

    Any way , there is a way , on windows system properties , to set in windows ,
    so this driver to not get loaded at windows startup .
     
    kiriakost, May 15, 2009
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