How do I permanently disable the synaptics touchpad on an HP Pavilion?

[directortom]

How do I permanently disable the synaptics touchpad on an HP Pavilion?

[Sat3rn]

Well,right click on Windows Start Menu icon, click on device manager,click on mice and other pointing devices and then disable synaptics touchpad driver.You can enable it the same way.

[worldbeat9991]

I have tried th suggested method to turn off synaptic pad.  The problem is when you log in next time,

the touchpad is working again.

How do you PERMANENTLY disablethe touch pad?  I'm using Windows 10, IE 10.

[jorgemartins]

Wich HP Pavilion is yours?

Usually HP notebooks have this function at the keyboard.

[Sat3rn]

Try uninstalling the driver instead of disabling it in the device manager.That will most likely make the touchpad useless until the driver is reinstalled manually.

[directortom]

I tried uninstalling the driver but that did not help. Then I had to reinstall it  so I  could temporarily suspend the touchpad. Woe is me!

[Sat3rn]

Ok it seems like HP has a page regarding this, Here see this : https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05336150 (Link Updated 04/27/2017)

Edit: Scroll down and see disabling the clickpad.

[MinnieM2015]

Been there, done that!  Very frustrating.

Just got off of a very lengthy chat with HP abt the issue.  The tech tried several things that didn't work but FINALLY downloaded a new Synaptics driver and NO MORE TOUCHPAD after restart!  I suggested that they put that info on their support site for others to use.

Think this is the URL he was using:  http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp71501-72000/sp71984.exe

Hope this helps.

[directortom]

Thanks  for the solution.  I did the install and rebooted. However, I still had to manually disable the touchpad which  I was having  to do anyway. If there is no other viable solution, then I'll keep disabling  the touchpad each time I log on. 

Perhaps it was a problem with  the upgrade to Windows  10.

Tom Salagaj

[MinnieM2015 · Accepted solution]

Sorry it didn't work for you.  We just let the tech take over the computer and could watch what he was doing.  At one time we could see thelong  URL I provided was on the scrn twice.  Not being sure if WE were supposed to do something or not I asked him.  He said he was going to change something in the BIOS.  All I know is that whatever he actually did at his end on our computer worked. . . and I'm sooooooo glad!

Things used to be so easy!