Hi Douglas, I've looked at the manual, but while the touch pad is mentioned, it doesn't say how to disable it. However, I also have a Toshiba Satellite, albeit an S2450-110, and this is done via Mouse in Control Panel. In the Mouse Properties dialog, there is a tab labelled "TouchPAD ON/OFF" which simply has two radio buttons - Enable and Disable - plus an OK, Cancel, Apply and Help button. There is also a "Device Settings" tab which lists my "Synaptics TouchPad V5.9", and that has a disable button. However, if you have by any chance re-formatted your Toshiba, and NOT used the recovery disks together with Toshiba's utilities, you may well find these items are missing. You can download the "TouchPad ON/OFF" utility from their web site, but you will need to know if it's the PSAC0 or PSAC1 version of the A120-186 which you have. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Harrison Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:10 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Disabling Touch Pad Many thanks for your help, George, it is a Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 - 186. I have its manual in pDF format (I could send a copy off list if that would help), but it seems to cover a range of models and says that some of the things it describes may not apply to all models. The term "Tecra" also occurs from time to time - I don't know what that is. As you may have seen from my reply to Chris, he thinks that I am almost there- but! Douglas On 27 Nov 2007 at 22:00, George Bell wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > Please remind me what make and model of laptop you have. (I > may be able to look at the actual User manual) > > It is highly possible that the Touch Pad control is actually > in Control Panel, but is listed under a different topic than > simply "Mouse". > > George. > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq