The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Disabling touchpad when mouse is plugged in?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by sheriffadam, Jul 22, 2010.

  1. sheriffadam

    sheriffadam Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    9
    Messages:
    85
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Pretty much question in the titles here, I've and E series, and often hit the touchpad when typing which is most annoying, my old dell and asus both had options to disable it, haven't found it yet on this vaio, any clues?
     
    sheriffadam, Jul 22, 2010
    #1
  2. shurcooL

    shurcooL Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    68
    Messages:
    745
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    shurcooL, Jul 22, 2010
    #2
  3. sheriffadam

    sheriffadam Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    9
    Messages:
    85
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    sure thing, I don't have those options in vaio control centre, will look for the updates perhaps :)
     
    sheriffadam, Jul 22, 2010
    #3
  4. baroninkjet

    baroninkjet Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    101
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    On my F, there is a control center heading for keyboard and mouse, then under that is "pointing device" with a checkbox.
     
    baroninkjet, Jul 22, 2010
    #4
  5. shurcooL

    shurcooL Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    68
    Messages:
    745
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    You can always disable it from Control Panel -> Mouse -> Synaptics tab (last one), press the Disable button.

    Or in the worst case, just disable the touchpad device from Device Manager.
     
    shurcooL, Jul 22, 2010
    #5