My experience has been that on must have manufacturer drivers installed to
disable the touchpad. I'm using a Dell D820, which uses the Alps touchpad
drivers. A clean install of Vista just uses the MS mouse drivers, which
allow me to use the pointing stick and the touchpad but offer no ability to
disable either.
I just downloaded the Alps XP drivers from Dell and installed them. got a
compatibility error after reboot but told Vista to run the program and was
able to disable the touchpad via the Alps utility program. If you're using a
Dell, take a look for program files\apoint and run apoint.exe. Otherwise,
you'll have to root around looking for your touchpad driver.
Lang
"Comcast" <dbarber59@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I don't have a button like that - It's strange - when I first started
>Vista, it had an icon
> for the touchpad - but that's disappeared. It doesn't show on the Device
> Manager either.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Dave
> "Gene Fitz" <gene_fitz(nospam)@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:F1AB4AE1-04D5-4062-8189-8468F3DB4D4E@microsoft.com...
>> Above, or below your touchpad, there should be a button. if you push the
>> button, it should toggle between on or off..
>> "Comcast" <dbarber59@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:51488EA7-8096-4849-AF66-0AB4D0015784@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi Group,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to turn off the TouchPad using
>>> Vista Beta 2? Thanks!
>>>
>>> dave
>>
>