Very often, laptop users complain that the touchpad - the built-in panel of every laptop that replaces the mouse - interferes quite a lot while typing or doing other intensive work with your favorite device. But not all owners of these devices know how to disable the touchpad on a laptop, and how easy it is to do it. This article will tell users how to do this in several ways in seconds or minutes!
There can be quite a lot of answers to the question of how to disable the touchpad on a laptop . But let's not dwell on such extraordinary options as closing the touch panel with a bank plastic card or a sheet of paper, as well as moving the mouse cursor to one of the rarely used areas of the screen, but rather focus on really working methods.
The easiest and fastest way to lock the sensitive touch panel is to press the key combination “Fn + F9”. Pressing this key combination again will make the panel active and allow using it as a mouse. It should be noted that some laptop models block the touchpad using another combination - “Fn + F8” for Lenovo laptops, “Fn + F7” for “Acer”, or “Fn + F5” for “Dell”. Many laptop manufacturers also supply their products with a small button that disables the touchpad (for several laptop models of HP, this button is replaced by a small luminous indicator, covering which you can also temporarily disable the touch mouse). It is located at the very edge of the panel in a fairly convenient location.
The second way is that the sensor can be forced to turn off automatically when a regular mouse is connected to the USB port. How to disable the touchpad on a laptop this way? Pretty simple - just go to the tab in the mouse settings under the name “Turn on / off the touch panel” and change the value set there to “Disable”.
Another option is to disable the touchpad using special programs. Among such utilities there is a lot of worthwhile software, for example, “Touchfreeze”, “Pointing Device Driver” for sensors from “Synaptics” and “Elan Smart-Pad”. The disadvantages of such a shutdown include the fact that you will need to install additional software on the computer, and not all such utilities will work with the Windows 7 operating system, and the computer owner will again have to puzzle over how to disable the touchpad on the laptop.
If you decide to abandon the use of the touch panel forever or at least for a long time, then you can turn it off in fairly radical ways. You can go to the laptop settings through the BIOS and disable the touchpad in the menu "Internal Pointing Device". Or go much further and, removing the front panel of the laptop, remove the cable connecting the system board to the touch pad. But in this case, making the touch “mouse” work again will not be as simple as connecting the headphones to the laptop or reducing the brightness of the screen.
But in many ways, the solution to this problem also depends on the specific laptop model. The above are just general ways of disabling the touchpad on a laptop as quickly as possible. Some modern laptop models may also contain solutions provided by the manufacturer, but for most laptops, the methods described in this article are also suitable.
Before you turn off this device in the most radical ways, you should think carefully. Do not forget that sometimes the touchpad can come in handy even with an ordinary mouse. For example, a USB-network card for a laptop will interfere with the normal mouse on a small table, and connecting a pair of removable media or a USB modem may simply not leave a free connector for the mouse. Therefore, it is better to limit yourself to those ways that allow you to turn on the touchpad as quickly as you turn it off.