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‎12-25-2019 09:55 AM

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Product: ZBOOK 15v G5 MOBILE WORKSTATION
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Greetings,
My Zbook has an ELAN Touchpad which is intrusive in the extreme. I need to disable it permanently.

I use a wireless Logitech Trackball instead.

Even though I ticked the function to turn off the touchpad when an usb mouse is detected, the touchpad is still operating.

 

My usual strategy to turn-off unwanted hardware does not have the desired effect on this touchpad.

I have large hands, and, when typing a document, I might accidently brush the touchpad area; often with the result of a text block moved to another place in the document. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
The Elan Touchpad doesn't have the facility to turn-off the device by double-clicking at the top left corner of it, as on my Probook.

The BIOS provides very little - where normally I would disabled resources that were not required there is no mention of touchpad.

So, probably the last resort has to be the windows registry.

However, I don't know the string to edit in Reg-Edit.

Perhaps others here might also have tried to disable the ELan Touchpad -for ever? I'd be most grateful for assistance.

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