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    how to disable the touch-pad mouse

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by pil1222, Jul 9, 2007.

  1. pil1222

    pil1222 Newbie

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    I have a gateway MX3412 laptop. I was trying to disable my touch-pad mouse. I went to "control pannel" --> "mouse" --> "Hardware". THere were 2 devices. one is my external PS mouse, the other one is "HID compliant mouse".

    anyways, i want to use the external one(USB) only. Does anyone know how to disable the touch-pad?

    Thanks
     
    pil1222, Jul 9, 2007
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  2. msiner

    msiner Notebook Consultant

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    Are you trying to disable it all together, or only when a USB mouse is plugged in? If it is when a mouse is plugged in, are you looking to have it done automatically or be done manually?
     
    msiner, Jul 9, 2007
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  3. pil1222

    pil1222 Newbie

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    actually, i only want to disable the touch-pad. I tried a couple of things in the "control panel" as i mentioned but it didn't work. And I just want to disable it, so i'll try whichever way can make this happen.
    thanks
     
    pil1222, Jul 9, 2007
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