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‎06-14-2016 05:32 PM - edited ‎06-14-2016 05:35 PM

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I have an HP 550 with Win XP SP3. I need to disable the touchpad on it.

I've tried double clicking on the top left hand corner of the pad, pressing the left hand corner for several seconds and Settings -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> Mice and other pointing devices. I have no touchpad showing anywhere under any of the logical (or even illogical device management categories, including Mice, Human Interface Devices, System Devices, Keyboards or even USB devices and Computer. Nothing, zero, zip. I've tried disabling the mouse via Device Manager per some instructions and then had to use the touchpad to renable the USB mouse. I have the updated HP drivers for this machine installed. I really need to get this disabled, because I'm only using a mouse and the touchpad is actually a serious liability.


I've also Googled until I'm blue in the face and searched the HP forums extensively.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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