Vista - Turn off Touch Pad

[Comcast]

Hi Group,

Does anyone know how to turn off the TouchPad using
Vista Beta 2? Thanks!

dave

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Disable it in Device Manager.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

The same way you'd turn it off in XP.

 

[Gene Fitz]

Above, or below your touchpad, there should be a button. if you push the
button, it should toggle between on or off..

 

[Comcast]

I don't have a button like that - It's strange - when I first started Vista,
it had an icon
for the touchpad - but that's disappeared. It doesn't show on the Device
Manager either.

Ideas?

Dave

 

[Lang Murphy]

My experience has been that on must have manufacturer drivers installed to
disable the touchpad. I'm using a Dell D820, which uses the Alps touchpad
drivers. A clean install of Vista just uses the MS mouse drivers, which
allow me to use the pointing stick and the touchpad but offer no ability to
disable either.

I just downloaded the Alps XP drivers from Dell and installed them. got a
compatibility error after reboot but told Vista to run the program and was
able to disable the touchpad via the Alps utility program. If you're using a
Dell, take a look for program files\apoint and run apoint.exe. Otherwise,
you'll have to root around looking for your touchpad driver.

Lang