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I have a v2000z so
if there's not button on the notebook to disable it, it's probably done by synaptics software so double click the touchpad icon on the start bar, and go to the device settings tab and disable it (this is reference that you have the newest drivers for synaptics).
If you don't have the icon, go to Start>settings[control panel]>pointers[mouse] and it should be there.
For some reason all of this doesn't work, you can always right click on "My Computer", go to properties, go to the Hardware Tab, click "device manager", find the touchpad under "mouse", right click and disable it from there.
might be a lil tricky to re-enable if you don't have an USB mouse.
Finally I found the new driver (5.4.1501.9) has that option to turn it off, however, just downloading the update and running it does not change my mouse configuration page in control panel. I ended up updating the driver manually in device manager by pointing to the extracted directory of the update file and choose "ALPs pointing device (2-way)". Now the new mouse configuration page in control panel shows the options for touchpad with settings for the vertical (and horizontal) scrolling zone setting as well as the option for turn the touchpad off.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
