[access-uk] Re: Disabling Touch Pad
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:56:33 -0000
Many thanks for taking so much trouble over this, George.
First let me say that this is a new machine purchased in October from
Dolphin. I take it that the Vista OS and Toshiba software were put on the
HD from an image - all that was done before I received it was installation of
Hal 8, Office etc. All the Toshiba stuff should be "factory fresh". Dolphin
suggest that I should be able to disable the Touch Pad from Device
Manager. I can find ALPS pointing device but there is no disable in its
Context menu.
Also when I open the Mouse Hardware and Sound in Control Panel I have
only five property sheets and the Touch Pad On/Off one you describe is
missing.
Another odd thing, not strictly relevant, is that if I go to Programs, Toshiba
Utilities and select Accessibility, I get an error message "this system cannot
use Toshiba Accessibility". As a matter of interest I tried the same
procedure on an old Toshiba A10, and there was no Error message.
It looks as if I need the Touch Pad On/Off utility you mention but I fail to
understand why it is not installed anyway.
To save cluttering up the list may I also thank Chris for his suggestions - I
hope that the above summarises the current position.
Douglas
On 28 Nov 2007 at 10:16, George Bell wrote:
> 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.
>
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Douglas Harrison
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