Disable touch pad

Goto controll panel and uninstall touch pad software, or remove battery then insert again.

Go into device manager, go down the list until you locate mouse, click on left box, right click on touch pad and select disable, touch pad should now be locked.

OK to disable you Touchpad you can press Fn + F12 or you can go to Control panel...Search for devices...or you can go to Device Manager. In the menu Look for sp/1 or sp/2 it will have your installed components or drive information for you mouse pad/touch pad. You can right click it and disable it. Also if you are having problems with you Touch Pad you can also download the driver and re-install in on your drive.

Go to this website: CLick Here For Hp Synaptics Drivers.
Click Your OS,
Search For Synaptics driver.

If you want to permanently disable it, you can go to device manager and disable the driver. You can enable it if you ever want to use it again.

You are probably using a laptop with a touchpad. What is happening is that your thumbs are touching the touch-pad as you type and the cursor is jumping around. Solution: disable your touch pad. You can go to Start > Control Panel > Mouse > Touch Pad > Disable

Another solution is to go to the Dell website > Support and Drivers > download and install the Synaptics Pointing Device driver and disable your touch pad using the options in this new driver.

Most of the toshiba laptops can disable touch pad with FN + F9.

In F9 key u can find touch pad picture.

have a look at the F keys - is possible one of those disables the touch pad
you can enable and disable the touchpads Touchpad: - to enable or disable a touch pad/pointing device from the Start Menu > control panel > Change to claasic view - {on left hand menu} click on the mouse icon Mouse Properties dialog box, click "Device Settings tab" select the device click to Enable or Disable OR You may need to enable in the bios/setup menu - as the PC boots - you should get a message on how to get into the bios/setup - usually using F2 or DEL Key or F10 see if touch pad needs to be enabled there OR one of the F keys may disable/enable - depends on the model of the Laptop - toshiba sometime use FN+F9 key

To turn off the touchpad when an external mouse or other pointing device is present, you can goto the Control Panel and double click the Mouse properties icon.

Click the Device Select tab and check "Disable Touch Pad when USB Pointing Device is present." The cursor will no longer move via the touchpad.

Alternatively, you can permanently disable the touchpad of your laptop by clicking the "Disable Device" in the Touch Pad setting. Advanced users can disable the touchpad from the BIOS setup [press F2 when the computer is booting to enter BIOS settings]

Unfortunately, there are no keyboard shortcuts to enable/disable Touchpad movement or tapping. You can however drag the Mouse icon from the control panel to your Quick launch bar for quick access.

If that sounds too much effort, you may consider adjusting the sensitivity of the touchpad. This can be accessed from the Touch Pad tab of our mouse properties. Choose a low setting.
You can also go to link below to get help.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/disable-touch-pad-of-your-laptop-avoid.html

You should have a "FN" key on the keyboard and one of the "F" keys should have a symbol that looks like the touch-pad, hold FN while using this key should disable it, failing this in control panel, then mouse and pointers, you should have touchpad setting there should be a disable button/radius.

You can use the Mouse Properties window to disable the touch pad or adjust the touch pad settings.

1. Click Start , and then click Control Panel.
   
   
2. Click Hardware and Sound.
   
   
3. Click Keyboard.
   
   
4. In the Mouse Properties window:
   
   
   • Click the Device Select tab to disable the touch pad.
     
     
   • Click the Touch Pad tab to adjust touch pad settings.
     
     
5. Click OK to save the settings and close the window.

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