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    How to disable touchpad without installing synaptics software?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ppen1, Sep 20, 2007.

  1. ppen1

    ppen1 Notebook Guru

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    I found that the driver delayed my boot up times to over 2 minutes when normally its under 50 seconds. So does anyone know how to disable touchpad without installing synaptics software?
     
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    Matthew. Notebook Consultant

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    Right click my computer -> Manage -> Device Manager -> Mice and other pointing devices -> right click the device and select disable if available.

    If you are having problems like that, do an OS reinstall.
     
    Matthew., Sep 20, 2007
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    In the device manager, there's a ps/2 mouse option + my logitech mouse. I can only disable the logitech which is what I don't want to do. No disable option for ps/2 mouse.

    any ideas? How will an OS reinstall solve this?
     
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    So, I am confused. You have a Synaptic TouchPad that is causing you problems yet you do not want to install the correct Synaptic drivers?
     
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    To quote you:
    It's far more likely to be the way the OS is handling the driver than it being the actual driver itself, as it's a generic Dell Touchpad driver - I am using one myself right now and my bootime is actually very good for the spec I have.

    If you have not done a reinstall after receiving the system I would advise it anyway. I am confident it will get rid of the issue, but if you don't want to do it try uninstalling the device and reloading the driver.
     
    Matthew., Sep 20, 2007
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    No. Installing the driver delays my boot times. Without any touchpad driver, my boot times are under 50 secs. I don't care much for the touchpad which still works without the driver albeit no scroll funtionality.



    Matthew: I have installed and reinstalled the OS many times before I identified the problem driver. once the touchpad drivers are installed (from a clean re-install), my boot times jump from 50 seconds to 2 minutes. I may try the generic synaptics driver instead of dell to see if it causes any delay. It would be nice to be able to disable the touchpad when an external mouse is in use and revert back automatically without an external mouse.
     
    ppen1, Sep 20, 2007
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    I would always use the driver from the device vendor before one from the PC vendor. Dump the Dell driver and install the real one from Synaptics.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Sep 20, 2007
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