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How to Disable/Enable touchpad on Inspiron and Latitude laptops

post #1 of 13
3/15/07 at 8:06pm
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How do you disable the touchpad on Dell laptops? Is there a key combination, button or is i tthrough software?

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post #2 of 13
3/16/07 at 12:55am
you can go into the control panel and open the mouse properties and disable it there.
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post #3 of 13
3/17/07 at 1:10pm
On the more recent models you just install the Synaptic drivers for the touchpad and there is a built in option to disable the touchpad if a USB mouse is present.
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post #4 of 13
5/24/07 at 3:34am
i installed the latest synaptics touchpad drivers and could not find an option to diable the touchpad is a usb mouse is present....can someone show me where this option is or am i missing something?? i'm using the latest version from their site and using windows vista 32bit also.
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post #5 of 13
5/25/07 at 9:29am


That's the control panel from my D820. All latitudes are like that. However, Inspirons use a different driver set than Latitudes so they will be different.
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post #6 of 13
9/24/07 at 10:39am

No enable/disable options in Mouse Properties

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Originally Posted by MrEvil View Post
That's the control panel from my D820. All latitudes are like that. However, Inspirons use a different driver set than Latitudes so they will be different.
The Control Panel on my D820 doesn't look like that. I have no enable/disable options. Any ideas? I also have a fingerprint sensor. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The touch pad is driving me crazy!!!
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post #7 of 13
9/24/07 at 6:24pm
If your control panel doesn't look even similar to that picture I posted then you don't have the proper touchpad driver package installed. Go reinstall it from the Dell website.
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post #8 of 13
12/2/07 at 2:28am
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Originally Posted by Spud387 View Post
How do you disable the touchpad on Dell laptops? Is there a key combination, button or is i tthrough software? Thanks
Most laptops have certain keys you can hit to disable the touchpad and usually its on of the F keys so if you hit the function button and and f key it should work. some people use f4 and some use f5 mine is Fn and F7 but i have an acer. so i hope this helps you out. goodluck
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post #9 of 13
12/23/12 at 6:58am

can you please post The URL where i can find the software

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post #10 of 13
12/23/12 at 9:17am
go to Dell support site for your model?
http://support.dell.com/

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post #11 of 13
12/25/12 at 7:21am
Thanks but can you show me the exact URL?
I can't find it.
I have an latitude D820 WIN XP
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post #12 of 13
12/25/12 at 7:49am
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/Product/latitude-d820

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post #13 of 13
12/26/12 at 5:32am

thank you this helpsdance2.gif

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