Disable Touchpad on HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae0xx

[BrianMJ]

For some reason my touchpad no longer disables with the upper left double-tap, OR, there was a setting for the mouse that disabled the touchpad when the mouse was active. Eher way, the double-tap is not working, cannot find the mouse setting to disable the touchpad when mouse is active, and I cannot find the setting to disable the touchpad.

I tried to disable touchpad through the device manager, but cannot seem to locate a method to disable. Settings / Devices / Touchpad / Additional Settings / Hardware / Synaptics SMBus Clickpad / Change Settings. And I get the following screen: 

Or this previous screen:

I do not see where or how to disable the touchscreen.

It has become very difficult to type, as I had gotten used to the touchpad being off while doing most of my typing using the mouse. Please help me disable the touchpad.

[theAeon]

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Video-Display-and-Touch/Recent-Update-broke-my-touchpad/m-p/7...

Seems to be the same update causing settings to disable as in the post above.

[BrianMJ]

Thanks, but your link didn't resolve:

"https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Video-Display-and-Touch/Recent-Update-broke-my-touchpad/m-p/...

Seems to be the same update causing settings to disable as in the post above."

[theAeon]

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Video-Display-and-Touch/Recent-Update-broke-my-touchpad/m-p/7...

oops. Here it is.

[BrianMJ]

Got it, thanks. This is what I was looking for. Will revert to original drivers, or just uninstall.

[theAeon]

Problem being that the stock drivers are also broken.

[BrianMJ]

Rolled back the touchpad driver and got the synaptics driver back. Can at least disable the touchpad now. Also added back into the icon tray for easy toggling.