Disabling touchpad

Is there any way to disable touchpad (and the clicker for it) on the G73JH? I found it in the Device manager (Synapsis drivers already removed) but the 'Uninstall' button is greyed out.

This is the most annoying inconvenience i have EVER had to put up with - I can not even type a single line of text without my wrist touching the touchpad, at which time one of two things happens:

1. It clicks the mouse and moves the cursor to somewhere else on the page, and i continue typing into the middle of another sentence

or

2. It starts clicking buttons on the screen and i end up losing my entire page of text (what just happened and inspired this post - I was typing up a letter to someone and it just refreshed the page and the letter was gone).

It has happened now SEVEN times while i was making this post. I really can not handle this, my blood pressure has been steadily rising because of this, from the moment i brought it home.

 

FN+F9
Just found it in the manual

 

Dudes, Another option is to install a recent synaptics driver ( I am using 15.2,7 from the manufacturer's site) and see the third link in this thread
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...uchpad-if-external-usb-connected-problem.html

There is a reg fix to put the check box in the synaptics software dialog. That way no keys to press if you want TP disabled when USB mouse is attached.
Hope this helps, J

 

Disable it in the BIOS.

 

Uhhh.... does Fn+F9 not work? Try reinstalling Synaptics driver without any USB mouse plugged in and it should function again.