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8760: permanently disable touchpad

Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by atom.Man, Jan 25, 2011.

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didn't see anything here on the forums or elsewhere, so, to permanently disable the Sentelic touchpad, as well as the buttons:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AVC\FSP

look for DWORD ' PadDisabled', set to ' 1', reboot

writing an app to do this is trivial, except you have to reboot (or maybe restart explorer.exe) for it to take effect

i'd welcome a better solution, but am not interested in having to FN + F1 at every boot/resume. there is no option to disable in device manager, at lease not with the stock Clevo driver i'm using

atom.Man, Jan 25, 2011

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This sounds like a good way to disable the control pad at boot up, will hitting the FN +F1 turn it back on when you want to use it?

I rarely use the touchpad so defaulting to off at boot up is a good find. I have not really spent to much time looking into this, so I do not have any better idea.

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Fn + F1 won't turn it back on - this is really for those that pretty much want to permanently disable it. you'd have to change 'PadDisabled' back to 0 and reboot

atom.Man, Jan 25, 2011

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