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‎01-22-2020 03:45 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion Laptop 15-cs1xxx
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Is there an easier way to disable the touchpad than editing the Registry?

 

In an earlier version of this question, user Steveninaz posted this solution:

 

This works for ELAN Touchpads. I got the hint from HP Support Agent Riddle_Decipher in this Community. 

The instruction was:

Open the Registry Editor and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/Elantech/Othersetting/DisableWhenDetectUSBMousekey and change the value from 0 to 1. 

Then I restarted my laptop and voila! 

Although I was still not able to find the proper tab or option is Settings Mouse or Touchpad, the problem was solved. The ELAN touchpad is now disabled when I plug my mouse into the USB connector.

 

This works for me, but the other solutions I've found here don't work on my machine (disable in Settings, uninstall in Device Manager, hardware switch on touchpad itself), and I find it hard to believe that HP would hide such a useful setting in the Registry, especially since a software setting would presumably cost nothing to leave in place.

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