Disabling the touchpad on windows 10?

[pollynova]

Does anyone know how to do this? I keep trying different things, but nothing works.

I want the touchpad on my laptop to not work at all. I use a mouse.

 

[warrior queen]

Why would you need to?
I use a mouse too, and I have never found the touchpad gets in the way or anything....

 

[Sean]

There's probably a BIOS setting for it.

 

[jason28053]

disable the device, but I am with warrior queen on this one. How is it getting in your way?

 

[pointless]

my laptop has a button to turn off the touch pad right next to the power button.

 

[Sean]

disable the device,

That should work.

 

[pollynova]

disable the device, but I am with warrior queen on this one. How is it getting in your way?

When I type, my hand brushes it sometimes. Sometimes it just moves the pointer, but other times it will zoom in and wonky stuff like that.

 

[eyer]

Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > HID-compliant touch screen > Disable...

...a pop-up screen will then ask you to confirm by clicking Yes.

Repeat those steps and Enable if you want to turn the touchscreen back on.

 

[Saint Peter]

Windows is ass.

 

[yossi]

my laptop has a button to turn off the touch pad right next to the power button.

Mine does as well. I would assume it's in your device settings. Like where you'd find mouse or keyboard settings.

These people seem to know what they're talking about.

 

[Dreamliner]

How is your computer setup?

try

control panel>>device manager>>mice and other pointing devices

10 is working better than 8.0 or 8.1. Solved a number of the issues. But, it did download an adware malware. Took a couple of days to remove it finally.

 

[pollynova]

Nothing seems to work. I've tried all these fixes and it still hasn't disabled it.

 

[Disgustipated]

Settings>Devices>Mouse & Touchpad>Additional Mouse Options (at bottom)>Disable

 

[Sudden_rides_again]

Why would you need to?
I use a mouse too, and I have never found the touchpad gets in the way or anything....

please dont mislead youngsters everyone knows the meaning of life the universe and everything is 42

 

[pollynova]

I had to have a friend come over and help me do this. You have to go into the bios and disable the touchpad there. It's apparently the only way to do it.

 

[RjThoughts]

Double tap the touchpad, like you could do in every other version of Windows

 

[Disgustipated]

Settings>Devices>Mouse & Touchpad>Additional Mouse Options (at bottom)>Disable

I had to have a friend come over and help me do this. You have to go into the bios and disable the touchpad there. It's apparently the only way to do it.

 

[Liar]

Windows is ass.

Is that a damning or an endorsment?

 

[Saint Peter]

Is that a damning or an endorsment?

That was.

 

[Jennifer]

Windows is ass.

Shit. I prefer tits to ass. Sighs.