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doesnt ur mouse work fine without turning off ur pad, i honestly dont think you can turn off the pad.

How is it bothering you ?

oh lol thats weird !!

well i did some reserach and testing on my laptop and i figured it out for u !!

every laptop has a POINTING DEVICE icon on the bottom right hand in the takstray. the logo is a touchpad pic. you can right click that and gooto properties.

OR go to your control panel ! and from there click mouse .

Then flip through your tabs and try to find a DISABLE BUTTON. Mine was located under DEVICE SETTINGS .

DEVICE SETTINGS: highlight the touchpad which should say ENABLED or YES under enabled column
- click disable

btw mine was called: SYNAPTICS TOUCHPAD

Tell me how it goes

The only viable solution I was able to find is to cover the touchpad with a business card or similar heavy stock paper. If the cursor is moving on it’s own fruition, this won’t eliminate that from happening.

The other item I found was to somehow remove the PS2 mouse from the configuration, but then you’re stuck using a serial mouse (if they still make one).

i found you a software , i think it is free: give it a try

here is the link:

http://software.techrepublic.com.com/…

here is the previous website :

http://search.techrepublic.com.com/se…

and this is my google search :

http://www.google.com/search?client=s…

update me !

Yeah, just don’t load the drivers for the touchpad.

bex, did the software work ?

hahahaa np, ye the best solution is to smack, i do it all the time and it works. my satellite was giving me issues last nite it would jsut freeze so i just smacked it hard afterthe 6 / 7 th time lol , it learned its lesson not toofreeze on me :P

but its good ur getting a new laptop, that should be fun, hope u dont get stuck like i did lol on specs :P

tc

What I said in a previous post, you are going to have keep the drives for your “Touch Pad” from loading at boot up time. Then have your external mouse drives load at boot up time.