Series 7 touchpad and webcam issues

I normally don't use touchpad. I checked the option that "disable when external USB porting device plug in" in Control Panel - Mouse - ELAN, but when I rest my palm on the touchpad, it still responses sometimes. It is really annoying because when I edit my text, the cursor jumps to elsewhere, break my word and I have to correct. You can check your touchpad by multiple click to see if it reacts. Does anyone know how to fix it?

And for the webcam, it is really blurry, dim and the color is washed, I tried the settings but it didn't help much on the hardware problem. How can they put a crappy webcam on the $1100 laptop?

My $450 Acer doesn't have any of these problems.

 

there's a fn + f-key to turn off the touchpad

I'm not home right now so i can't check, but there's only so many so it shouldn't be hard to find

 

thanks but the problem for your method (Fn + F5) is that every time after I wake my laptop up the touchpad is activated, I am tired of turning it off at every start.

 

You can turn it off in the BIOS.

 

this is helpful, I didn't know that, thank you.