How to turn off the touchpad on the laptop

All modern laptops are equipped with a touchpad, which significantly facilitates the work of users on trips and travel, because you do not need to have a mouse with you. However, when the mouse is connected, and you are forced to print a lot, the hand may touch the touchpad, which greatly complicates life: the cursor is constantly knocked down, the lacquer opens extra applications, you have a lot of time. In such a situation, the touch panel is better disconnected at all, at any time you can turn it on back. In this article, you will learn how to disable the touchpad in a particular laptop model, as well as what ways to turn off existence.

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How to turn off the touchpad on a laptop mechanically

Some laptops are equipped with a mechanical shutdown of the touchpad. You can do this in such ways:

Climbing one of the top corners of the touchpad with a finger for a few seconds.
Having placed a thin needle into a special round hole on the touch panel.

If the hole rushes into the eye and noticeably immediately, then with pressing everything is not so simple. The fastest option will experience: Hold the touchpad in different angles and look at the result. If you do not want to waste time and click, then use the Internet by entering the model of your laptop and the corresponding question.
If there is no mechanical shutdown on your laptop, you will have to choose another method.

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How to disable Synaptics touchpad on a laptop

The most popular touch panel is called Synaptics. For example, if you have a Toshiba brand laptop, then be sure that you have Synaptics touchpad. The remaining brands also resort to it.

If you do not know which touch panel is installed on your laptop, just try it to check the instructions below.

Go to the control panel through the Start.

Put sorting by category in the upper right corner of the screen. Select the "Equipment and Sound" section.

Now go to the "Devices and Printers" subsection called "Mouse".

A small window with parameters will open. It is here that you need to look for Synaptics if you have it. The tab will be called "device parameters", and next to these words an orange logo will be displayed. If you have this tab, you can configure the touchpad disabling when the mouse is inserted. But if you did not find such a tab - it is not scary, there are still several ways to disconnect the touch panel.

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How to disable the touchpad on a laptop in device manager

This method is suitable for everyone without exception, since you will work with system settings. Make sure you have updated drivers on a laptop.

Go to the control panel through the Start. Then select "Equipment and Sound" section. After that, go to the Device Manager subsection. Pay attention to the yellow shield next to the section. This means that you will not be able to enter the dispatcher until you enter the administrative account.

In the window that opens, you have to find a touchpad. Most often, it is located in the "Mice and Other Indicating Devices" section. Sometimes - in "HID devices".
Select the hardware with the name "HID". This is most likely a touchpad. It may be called PS / 2, but the keyboard will also be with an equal likelihood.

Right-click on the device and select the word "Disable" from the list. Now the touchpad will turn off.

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How to turn off the touchpad on Acer and Asus laptops

On many laptops there are special key combinations that turn off the touch panel. Look carefully on the key of the row F *, and you can see the icon of the crocked touchpad on one of them. As a rule, on laptops from Acer and ASUS, this is the F7 key.

Therefore, to disable the touchpad, simultaneously hold the Fn and F7 keys.