How do I turn off my Control Zone touch pad?

[Crotalus]

The Control Zone Touch Pad  on my  HP ENVY 15 Notebook PC is preventing me from being able to comfortably type.   How do I turn it off?

I prefer my wireless mouse and this is a touch screen... seems overly redundant.

Thank You!

[KNRK · Accepted solution]

Click on the below shown link to find the steps involved in disabling the Touchpad
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03922412


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[Crotalus]

Thank You...

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HP Pavilion 15-e000 and 17-e000 Notebook PCs:

1. In the control panel, select Hardware and Sound. Select Devices and Printers. Select Mouse.
2. Select the Device Settings tab. Click *(HP Control Zone)  Settings.
3. Select *(HP Control Zone Disable)  *(Ignore the following) Tapping. Click the settings icon.
4. Uncheck "Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touch Pad".

[Crotalus]

Better yet...  Instead of clicking the "HP Control Zone Disable"; there's a check box next to "Disable internal pointing device when external USB pointing device is attached".

Brilliant!

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Crotalus wrote:

The Control Zone Touch Pad  on my  HP ENVY 15 Notebook PC is preventing me from being able to comfortably type.   How do I turn it off?

I prefer my wireless mouse and this is a touch screen... seems overly redundant.

Thank You!

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Good for you Crotalus, it took me all day to learn that "Control Zone"  is HP-Speak for "touch pad".

You did not say what Obsfucation System you are using ...  here's how I did it in Win 8.1 on my new laptop.

I have no experience with Win 8 until today.

(wait till you see what HP considers a good "default" setting for their "zone")

HP  Agony    M7   laptop  (feb 2015)  Win 8.1

Problem:  touch pad can't be disabled. 

HP removed the switch, and eschewing the term everyone is looking for:  "touch pad",  for the much more frustrating and confusing " Control Zone  ", effectively hid the enable box deep behind the inscrutable Windows 8.1 Obsfucation System. 

Solution:  first you have to find "control panel" in Windows 8.1       it took me all day

move the cursor to the lower right corner of the screen and wiggle it around. 

a  frying pan icon appears on the middle right side -- click it

in the Search box type  "control panel "

just below appears "control panel" icon  click it

old and familiar control panel appears --

click on    "hardware and sound"

top of the list under devices and printers :  click "mouse"    

a mouse properties box opens

click  "HP Control Zone Settings"  tab    

in the middle of the dialog box you will see  : 

  "Disable internal pointing device when external USB pointing device is attached."     check the box.

click  "apply"