How do I disconnect the touch pad on my laptop?

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(Giving something back to Leo) --- Sony's touchpad can be a pain. Accidental touch can make cursor jump elsewhere when you are trying to type a document.

So, plug in a mouse and then right-click My Computer, Properties, Device Manager tab, Mouse, highlight Alps GlidePoint or the equivalent, Properties, check "Disable in this hardware profile." If that doesn't work, the touchpad software is corrupted. Re-install Alps and then disable it per the above.

Can you show me how to disconnect the touch pad on the Toshiba laptop, please!
thanks!

Toshiba touchpads can usually be disabled with the special functions keys. On most it is FN + F9. 'F' keys should have pictures hinting what their secondary functions are.

Actually, the only way I found I could do it was to go Start, Control Panel, Sony Notebook Setup, Device, and then untick the pointing device tickbox. Confirm this when the button appears and enjoy cursor-jump free tying from now on.

how do you reconnect toouchpad?

I have been having problem with the touchpad for YEARS...Thank you for the FN+f9 holy %$#* that is awesome. I had a card taped over my pad for 3 years because I could not figure it out.

Aloha,

My Toshiba 1135-S1551 Alps touchpad is not responding to selections I made in properties (i.e., hide cursor when typing). I re-installed the driver to no avail.

PLEASE help me resolve this problem!

Tana-Lee

I've accidently shut off a touchpad for a laptop by preventing the processes that control it from starting up at boot time.

Used msconfig and services.msc to stop these processes. The actual process names will vary per laptop and this may not even come close to working if the touchpad is controlled by hardware that's built in, but it's worth a shot if you really wanna stop the touchpad altogether.

Go through your process and services lists and Google those you think are involved with the touchpad. Stop 'em from running and voila.

To disable touchpad in my Sony Vaio:

Open My Computer

Open Local Disk (c:)

Open Program Files folder

Open Sony folder

Open Setting Utility Series folder

Open VCCPointingDevice

"Built-n Pointing Device" window pops up

Uncheck the Enable box.

Say yes, I am sure.

I tried to disable the ALP touch pad on my Dell Latitude D610 but its not possible as the function is grey and can't be changed. Do you have any other idea?

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