Hello

New to this newsgroup so don't know if this has been raised before:-

I am trying disable the touchpad on a Toshiba satellite 1900 notebook with
XP Pro Service Pack 1. I prefer an external mouse &  find the touch pad gets
in the way sometimes when typing - ie my hand touches/rests on the touch pad
occasionally and causes the cursor to jump around.

The original touch pad driver gives no option to disable (the external mouse
has this option). I have installed the latest Toshiba touch pad driver from
their web site  & although it is quite different, it also has no disable
option. I have tried deleting the driver but of course XP Pro senses new
hardware at each bootup & reinstalls the driver. The problem is not "earth
shattering"  & I currently just put a piece of cardboard over the touch pad,
which works, but I'm hoping for a more hi-tech solution if possible.

Any help much appreciated.

Greg

Greg Grimwood wrote:
> Hello
>
> New to this newsgroup so don't know if this has been raised before:-
>
> I am trying disable the touchpad on a Toshiba satellite 1900 notebook
> with XP Pro Service Pack 1. I prefer an external mouse &  find the
> touch pad gets in the way sometimes when typing - ie my hand
> touches/rests on the touch pad occasionally and causes the cursor to
> jump around.
>
> The original touch pad driver gives no option to disable (the
> external mouse has this option). I have installed the latest Toshiba
> touch pad driver from their web site  & although it is quite
> different, it also has no disable option. I have tried deleting the
> driver but of course XP Pro senses new hardware at each bootup &
> reinstalls the driver. The problem is not "earth shattering"  & I
> currently just put a piece of cardboard over the touch pad, which
> works, but I'm hoping for a more hi-tech solution if possible.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Greg

Toshiba, at one time in the not so distant past, included a notebook 
setup or tools program that had settings for enabling/disabling the 
touchpad.  This was just an interface to BIOS settings, so you might 
also try BIOS setup (F2, Del, Esc, or whatever key Toshiba uses, just 
after pressing the power button).

Q 

Greg Grimwood wrote:

> I am trying disable the touchpad on a Toshiba satellite 1900 notebook with
> XP Pro Service Pack 1. I prefer an external mouse &  find the touch pad gets
> in the way sometimes when typing - ie my hand touches/rests on the touch pad
> occasionally and causes the cursor to jump around.

Don't know about your Toshiba, but in my new one the settings are buried 
deeply.  Control Panel -- Mouse -- Hardware -- mumble mumble.  Keeping 
going further and further in and check all the options.  Somewhere in 
there they probably do have a "turn it off."

I'm learning to like the touch pad, but at the moment it acts only as a 
mouse--no clicking, no scrolling, etc.  Maybe I'm just "challenged" in 
some way, but I'd get a finger or thumb too close or stop too long while 
moving the cursor and the #*R#)R#_ confuser would go off on its own tangent!

"Greg Grimwood" <greggrimwood@optusnet.com.au> wrote in
news:415b351e$0$10347$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au: 


> I am trying disable the touchpad on a Toshiba satellite 1900 notebook
> with XP Pro Service Pack 1. 
> 
> The original touch pad driver gives no option to disable (the external
> mouse has this option). I have installed the latest Toshiba touch pad
> driver from their web site  & although it is quite different, it also
> has no disable option. 

Check your hardware confirm( check the device manager) your Toshiba uses a 
Synaptics touchpad. Get the latest driver package from www.synaptics.com.  
They will give you much better control than the Toshiba provided driver.

Joe

I did not have to disable the toughpad.
I only disable the "taping" , this way I can use it, if i need it, and use 
the buttons to do the tapping.

"Quaoar" <quaoar@tenthplanet.net> wrote in message 
news:DIWdnXQEPLzo9sbcRVn-rw@comcast.com...
> Greg Grimwood wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> New to this newsgroup so don't know if this has been raised before:-
>>
>> I am trying disable the touchpad on a Toshiba satellite 1900 notebook
>> with XP Pro Service Pack 1. I prefer an external mouse &  find the
>> touch pad gets in the way sometimes when typing - ie my hand
>> touches/rests on the touch pad occasionally and causes the cursor to
>> jump around.
>>
>> The original touch pad driver gives no option to disable (the
>> external mouse has this option). I have installed the latest Toshiba
>> touch pad driver from their web site  & although it is quite
>> different, it also has no disable option. I have tried deleting the
>> driver but of course XP Pro senses new hardware at each bootup &
>> reinstalls the driver. The problem is not "earth shattering"  & I
>> currently just put a piece of cardboard over the touch pad, which
>> works, but I'm hoping for a more hi-tech solution if possible.
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>>
>> Greg
>
> Toshiba, at one time in the not so distant past, included a notebook setup 
> or tools program that had settings for enabling/disabling the touchpad. 
> This was just an interface to BIOS settings, so you might also try BIOS 
> setup (F2, Del, Esc, or whatever key Toshiba uses, just after pressing the 
> power button).
>
> Q
> 

"Greg Grimwood" <greggrimwood@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:415b351e$0$10347$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Hello
>
> New to this newsgroup so don't know if this has been raised before:-
>
> I am trying disable the touchpad on a Toshiba satellite 1900 notebook with
> XP Pro Service Pack 1. I prefer an external mouse &  find the touch pad gets
> in the way sometimes when typing - ie my hand touches/rests on the touch pad
> occasionally and causes the cursor to jump around.

On my Toshiba it's Fn-F8 to enable or disable the touchpad.  I find it quite
handy since I use both the touchpad and the mouse.