How do I swtich off my mousepad?

[WendyM2]

When I'm typing a lot, I keep catching the mousepad  with my left hand and it often deletes chunks of text by mistake. Therefore, I'd like to disable the touchpad as and when I need to, but I don't want to completely uninstall it, obviously.

All the instructions I can find to switch it on and off take me down procedures where the buttons I need to click on don't actually exisit!  What do I do now? Please help!

[praveen196]

@WendyM2 Welcome to HP Community!

I understand that you would like to disable the touchpad.

Do not worry. I will try to fix the issue.

Here is How to Disable Touchpad on HP Laptop Windows 10 –

1] Using the built-in button of touchpad

HP laptop includes a hidden button to enable and disable touchpad instantly. To Disable Trackpad on HP Laptop, double-tap on the small white indicator located in the top-left corner. If you don’t notice the indicator, touch and hold your finger on the top-left corner of your HP touchpad for five seconds. This will Disable HP Touchpad instantly and to ensure the incident the system will turn on a light along with a symbol on the screen. See snapshot –

To unlock touchpad on the HP laptop for further use, you need to do the exact same you did before to disable the trackpad. This time the light will be extinguished with the below image –

2] Through Settings app

Step-1: Press Windows key on the keyboard and then select Settings cog from the Start menu.

Step-2: Click Devices.

Step-3: On the consequent page, select Mouse from the left column and shift to right.

Step-4: Click an Additional mouse options link.

Step-5: When Mouse Properties comes up with opened TouchPad tab, click the Disable button.

Step-6: In the end, click the Apply button and then OK.

To unlock touchpad on HP laptop, open the Mouse Properties again and this time hit the Enable button.

Please refer to the below document to disable the touchpad.

https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c03882926

If the issue still persists, please try the below steps.

Windows Key+X (Or right-click on Start) > Click Device Manager > View tab > Show hidden devices > Expand Human Interface devices > Right-click on the touchpad listed there > disable device

let me know how that pans out,

And the answer to the above question will help me, help you!

Keep me posted, and if any of the above questionnaires helped resolve the issue, 

Mark this post as an "Accepted Solution".
Good luck.