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    Disabling touchpad for M1530

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by RyanCA, Feb 15, 2008.

  1. RyanCA

    RyanCA Notebook Geek

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    I'm currently on AC power, with a cordless mouse. Is there a way to disable the touchpad? It gets in the way sometimes when I'm word processing. I went to device manager, but under 'mouse and other pointers', I don't see an option for touchpad. Help?
     
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  2. X2P

    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    There should be a touchpad icon on the right side of the taskbar. open it and you can disable it there.. its called dell touchpad
     
    X2P, Feb 15, 2008
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  3. RyanCA

    RyanCA Notebook Geek

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    Unfortunately there's no touchpad icon on my taskbar. I did a clean install about a week ago, if that has any effect?
     
    RyanCA, Feb 15, 2008
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    WizeGuyDezignz Notebook Consultant

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    Did you reinstall the drivers for the touchpad after your reformat? If not, I would start there, then you should have control over it to disable it.
     
    WizeGuyDezignz, Feb 15, 2008
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  5. HamFX

    HamFX Newbie

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    Unistall the driver and install this:

    http://drivers.synaptics.com/Synaptics_Driver_v10_1_8_Vista64.exe

    You can disable touchpad, but only in manual mode, not automatic mode when detecting mouse :(
     
    HamFX, Feb 21, 2008
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