[access-uk] Re: Disabling Touch Pad

  • From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherhallsworth71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:27:06 -0000

Ok Doug. On my Vista laptop, to turn off my touchpad I have to do the following: 

1. Start
2. Control Panel
3. Mouse
4. Shift control tab to other page.
5. Uncheck the "use touchpad and/or PS/2 mouse" check box.
6. Press enter.
Hope that helps.
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower User
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Disabling Touch Pad
Thanks Chris. With regard to your first suggestion, there is no mention of such a button in 
the manual though.
I had a look for something of the type you suggest in Control Panel yesterday but with no luck. Perhaps part of the trouble is my unfamiliarity with the Vista Control Panel and its 
enormous number of applets  Still I will have another look today.
Of course I could resort to sticking a piece of cardboard over the buttons, but I am sure that it should be possible to disable them anyway. I still cannot understand why FN + f9 does 
not work on this machine.

Thanks for your help,


Douglas

.

On 27 Nov 2007 at 8:16, Chris Hallsworth wrote:
Hi, two possibilities. There may be a button on the touchpad itself (I don't recall Toshiba laptops having these though, unless they've changed), or you can disable it through mouse properties in control panel. Hope that helps. 
Chris Hallsworth
BrailleNote mPower User
Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr
----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:07 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Disabling Touch Pad


> On the old Toshiba laptop which I used for several years I was able to
> disable the touchpad etc. by pressing FN + f9.  This avoided many
> "accidents" when my clumsy hands touched one of the mouse buttons at an
> unfortunate time.
>
> However with the Satellite Pro A120 which I bought this year disabling > the 
> touch pad no longer seems to work - although the feature is included in
> the
> manual.
>
> If other Toshiba laptop users have any suggestions I would be most
> grateful. I am sure that there is a simple explanation, but at > present 
> it
> eludes me.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>



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