override travelmate touch pad with usb mouse

[ronck722]

How do I override the TravelMate Elan touch pad (Win 7 Pro) when a USB mouse is plugged in?

 

[Hellfire13]

this might be helpful...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/241048/how_to_disable_your_laptop_touchpad.html

 

[ronck722]

this might be helpful...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/241048/how_to_disable_your_laptop_touchpad.html

 

[ronck722]

Thanks Hellfire13,

I had actually defeated my touchpad previously but took my laptop somewhere and all of a sudden realized I had neither the touchpad or the mouse (actually a trackball). I probably could have rebooted and fixed it in the BOIS.

So I set the laptop up to simply turn off the touch pad when I plugged in the USB trackball but the silly touchpad turned itself back on. It's so touchy it does terrible things when I'm typing, like jumping back a page or closing up spaces between words. I'd forgotten how to re-do it. I could also dial back the sensitivity. I'm a retired electronics guy, but some of this stuff evades me.

My Best,

Ron

 

[Hellfire13]

i wud prefer to touch a girl instead