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How do I turn off touchpad?
I have tried to turn off the touchpad on my Dell Inspiron 9300 without sucess. I am using windows XP. What I have tried is clicking on the touchpad icon on the lower right bottom of the screen. I then select Touch pad. But there is no disable box or option.
I need to turn this off since I am having problems with the touch pad and now have an external mouse which works well.
Jeet.in
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January 27th, 2012 20:00
Press Fn+F3. This should disable the TouchPad.
DELL-Terry B
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February 1st, 2012 08:00
Unfortunatly there are no hotkeys to disable the touchpad. If Quickset in installed correctly hitting FN and F3 will turn on the battery meter. The notebook should have an Alps touchpad. Go to control panel, mouse, select the touchpad tab. Make sure that the box for "Tapp off while Typing" is checked. Click the "Touch Sensitivity Button" and set it all the way to low.
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Deke1
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July 8th, 2012 13:00
Hi. I have an Inspiron 1440. I can't figure out how to disable the touch pad. There is no "touchpad" option in the mouse or pointer function under "Control Panel".
pauleemc2
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August 20th, 2012 21:00
You can render the touchpad inoperative by simply taping a piece of clear plastic over the surface of the pad. The left and right buttons will still function, but in my case the left button (and a single tap of the pad) had ceased to operate anyway. I tried updating the touchpad's driver to no avail. As such, I've reverted to a old-school USB mouse. This is a stop-gap measure until I order a replacement touchpad from PChub (http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/70-27049-4461/Dell-Inspiron-9300-Touchpad-Track-Point-Track-Ball.html).
mhneuman
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May 13th, 2013 07:00
I have a Inspiron 6400 running XP. When I go to "mouse" in the Control Panel there is no tab for touchpad. Do I need to load a driver?
Dell - Harish M
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May 16th, 2013 16:00
Hi mhneuman,
Please click on the below link to download the touchpad driver. Also find the snapshot on how to disable the touchpad.
http://dell.to/13zQd5Q
Danny Ward
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July 10th, 2014 23:00
Danny Ward
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July 21st, 2014 21:00