Can Spectre X360 trackpad be turned off?

[1719Gervais]

This solution does not work - and HP needs to be more responsive to it buyers  

[1719Gervais]

This is exactly what happens, power down and it returns. HP should be developing a pernmant solution, but that will never happen. Typically of a big company, that has lost sight of the customer!

[Sparkles1]

Hi @1719Gervais,

Thank you for your inquiry. I grasp that you would like to disable the touchpad so that it is not enabled again on startup. Here is a link to HP Notebook PCs - Using the TouchPad or ClickPad (Windows 10). Please see "Opening the ClickPad properties" Figure 4. You will see a button to disable the TouchPad. Select it,  then click apply and OK.  This should remain disabled until you re-enable it.  Please let me know if this resolved the issue for you.

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[Praesagus]

Thank you @jlonomo, this works perfectly.  You saved my sanity, thank you.

[Praesagus]

For those of you who are having to reboot to regain your mouse, make sure to choose "turn touch pad off" not "turn off for this session."

[rland]

If want to have the touchpad disabled when you have a mouse attached, but have the touchpad be re-enabled when the mouse is not attached, here's the only thing I can find that works on an HP Spectre 360 --

Go to 'Settings' and click on the 'Devices' icon.  In the list that comes up, click on the 'Pen and Windows Ink' item in the left-hand column.  The 3rd item down is 'Ignore touch input when I'm using my pen.'  Turn this feature 'on.'  When you do, with a mouse connected, the touchpad input is ignored.  Remove the mouse, and the touchpad responds.  The touch screen still responds in either arrangement.  Haven't checked the effect on pen usage since I don't ever use a pen.

Note - I got to this after trying a variety of other things because, unlike non-Synaptics touchpads that let you disable the pad in Device Manager by right-clicking on the device, the Synaptics pad does not have a 'disable' choice in the driver.  Also, uninstalling the driver doesn't work either; the driver is automatically reloaded on startup.  Changing a variety or Synaptics touchpad entries in the Registry also failed to work.  So, if you're having similar problems, try the above and see if it works.  Works for me.