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Anyway to kill the touchpad when a usb mouse is installed?

post #1 of 16
8/13/06 at 11:34pm
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When I play counterstrike my fingers sometimes taps the touchpad causing it to shoot or something. Is there any way I can switch between them? Like when I'm using the mouse, to dactivate the touchpad, or when I unplug the mouse, the touchpad works again?
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post #2 of 16
8/14/06 at 1:00am
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Originally Posted by thricemike
When I play counterstrike my fingers sometimes taps the touchpad causing it to shoot or something. Is there any way I can switch between them? Like when I'm using the mouse, to dactivate the touchpad, or when I unplug the mouse, the touchpad works again?

Check your touchpad properties. My touchpad driver has a setting that disables the touchpad when a mouse is present.
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post #3 of 16
8/14/06 at 1:10am
Some notebooks have a key stroke to disable it. For example on mine it is fn + F7.
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post #4 of 16
8/14/06 at 1:17am
mine has it set that way automatically when i installed all drivers
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post #5 of 16
8/14/06 at 2:16am
you should also have a synaptics icon in the taskbar if you ever cared to install the proper synaptics driver/utilitties....you can right click on it to disable the touchpad
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post #6 of 16
8/14/06 at 3:01am
Some computers have a little button above the touchpad. Press it.
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post #7 of 16
8/14/06 at 3:08pm
Mines hooked up to to an internal PS2 connection, you could always try the Bios. That works for me and the mouse properties.
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post #8 of 16
8/14/06 at 5:34pm
Mine has a button by the power button that disables the touchpad and vice versa.
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post #9 of 16
8/14/06 at 7:12pm
It might help if we knew what laptop you had. Otherwise you'll end up with everybody telling you how they can turn off the touchpad on their laptops (as is happening), and the solution for yours might or might not be one of them.
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post #10 of 16
8/14/06 at 7:16pm
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Asus S96J
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post #11 of 16
8/15/06 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by thricemike
Asus S96J
So does this guy:
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Originally Posted by usapatriot
Mine has a button my the power button that disables the touchpad and vice versa.
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post #12 of 16
8/15/06 at 6:16pm
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Damn I'm a fool.
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post #13 of 16
8/15/06 at 9:22pm
lol, its the first button to the left of the power button, it disables and enables the touchpad.
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post #14 of 16
8/16/06 at 1:19am
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I don't get it, I pressed it and it doesn't work. The Mail one and the Internet one works though..
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post #15 of 16
8/18/06 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by usapatriot
lol, its the first button to the left of the power button, it disables and enables the touchpad.

Did you have to do anything to get it to work? I installed all my drivers, the internet and e-mail button work as well. I assume the first one is related to wifi. It doesn't work
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post #16 of 16
8/18/06 at 10:27pm
install the touchpad driver when you insert a usb mouse it should auto disable touchpad
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