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Last Login: 7/26/2008 6:26 AM
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| Hey, I'm looking for a way to disable the touchpad on my laptop while I have a mouse plugged in. I tend to tab the pad with my palm and mess up my typing quite frequently. Or click a link while I'm just about done filling out a lengthy form. I just traded my laptop for a better one at the store and the old one had touchpad settings, but this one I can't seem to find the option to even turn it off 100% of the time.
I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium on a Sony Viao. Thanks for your help.
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Last Login: 7/23/2008 9:45 PM
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| That's odd, because I have the Vaio with Home premium, and there's a touchpad setting just for this problem.
On my Vaio, this setting is located from: right-click the desktop, personalize, mouse pointers, device settings, the settings button, sensitivity, palm check. This is where you adjust the sensitivity of the pressure from your palm on the touchpad.
My Vaio has the Synaptics TouchPad. The settings slider is set in the middle and I have good results from there.
If you want to disable the touchpad and just use the external mouse, that is also possible. Right-click desktop, personalize, mouse pointers, device settings, then click the disable button. The touchpad won't respond, but the external mouse will. Just click enable when you want the touchpad back.
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| I don't have device manager
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| Try holding the windows key + pressing break key. Then you should see Device Manager on the left side. 
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| There is no option to disable it for me. That is the touchpad I have right clicked in the screenshot I think.
http://i30.tinypic.com/vyqtqu.jpg
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Last Login: 7/23/2008 9:45 PM
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| I never mentioned the device manager in my earlier post, the device settings tab is what you're after in the mouse properties window.
In the mouse properties window, it will be the last tab on the right. This is where you adjust the settings for the touchpad.
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