How to Disable trackpad

[Nick332]

So I really like the trackpad on this laptop aside from 2 things and I haven't been able to find the settings for them yet. The first is that the trackpad can be clicked while typing. The second: I cannot choose to disable the trackpad via a fn key, so essentially how do I disable the trackpad automatically when a mouse is connected, or how do I manually do this? I have spent quite some time looking for the solutions to both of these to no avail. 

[Riddle_Decipher]

@Nick332 Welcome to HP Community!

You'll have to identify if that's synaptics or Elan touchpad (track-pad) drivers on the device manager, so that we can use the appropriate steps to disable the same:

To disable the Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad feature, open the TouchPad tab in Mouse Properties.
(If you've got the synaptics touchpad, use the below steps)

1. Click Start , and then type mouse in the search field.

2. Click Change your mouse settings.

3. Click Additional mouse options.

   

4. In Mouse Properties, click the TouchPad tab.

   NOTE: 

   Some HP notebooks have an HP Control Zone tab. If your notebook has this tab, open it and click HP Control Zone Disable.

    

   If the properties window does not have a TouchPad option, then the TouchPad functionality is not available.

5. Uncheck Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad.

   

   NOTE: 

   If the option is not available on the Mouse Properties window, click Settings to open the Synaptics Control Panel. On the Click tab, uncheck Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad.

6. Click Apply, and then click OK.

[Nick332 · Accepted solution]

That process no longer works due to recent windows 10 updates, but I was able to accomplish the final step by doing the following.

1. press the windows key and type in synaptics touchpad and open that. 

2. click the "disable internal pointing device when external usb pointing device is attached" That solves that problem.

If you want to make less accidential clicks when you are typing:

1. click on clickpad settings

2. Mess with the settings under "smartsense"

[Riddle_Decipher]

@Nick332 That's great, thanks for the update,

And I wish you good luck ahead, take care.