how to disable touchpad compaq presario

[yobennyo]

control panel/mouse there are no controls to do this, nor is there an icon in the tray for it. please help thanks!

[DavidPK]

Hi,

Can you post back with the following.

1.  The full Model No. and Product No. of the notebook ( from the service tag underneath your notebook ) - see Here for a further explanation.

2.  The full version of the operating system you are using ( ie Windows 7 32bit ).

Regards,

DP-K

[yobennyo]

CNF5332T1L
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XPhome addition

[DavidPK]

Hi,

First, download and install the Synaptics Touchpad Driver on the link below.

http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33751.exe

After the installation has completed, restart the notebook.

Open windows Control Panel and open Mouse - click the Device Settings tab, select the Synaptics device and you should have the option to Disable or Turn Off the touchpad.

Regards,

DP-K

[yobennyo]

It says there is a newer version on the pc if I want to intall this one remove the other one in add/remove. It is not on the list in add remove.

[yobennyo]

This touchpad is doing strange things like just moving the cursor over things in a browser causes them to activate, I am not sure if it's not a mechanical issue a one of the buttons feels different from the other. I was hoping to just deactivate it, can I manually delete the driver somewhere and stop it from working?

[yobennyo]

OK where did the cavalry run off to?

[DavidPK · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Work unfortunately

Try disabling the Synaptics pointing device in windows Device Manager as shown in the link below.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsxp/ht/disabledvxp.htm

Regards,

DP-K

[clevedon-ned]

It seems that you are trying to dodge the bullet, the question is simple, Is there a way to disable the touchpad or not.

This problem is not just with compaq laptops, both my compaq and asus laptops have the same problem and I put it down to the touchpads  but cannot find a way to disabable them.