How to disable the keyboard mouse on a laptop. How to disable touchpad on laptop.

The touchpad is a touchpad located under the keyboard that acts as a mouse. It only happens on laptops and netbooks. But most often, users prefer to use an external mouse. It justifies itself if the laptop is used as a replacement desktop computer, but in the case of its constant movement, the mouse will bring discomfort. Therefore, now we will figure out how to turn on the touchpad on a laptop.

Let's look at the algorithm of actions when connecting / disconnecting the touchpad. Fortunately for the user, manufacturers have already taken care of this and have provided several keys, pressing which will perform this function.

1. On the ASUS laptop - Fn + F9;
2. On a DELL laptop- Fn+F5;
3. On the Acer laptop - Fn + F7;
4. On the Lenovo laptop - Fn+F8;
5. On an HP laptop- look at the top row of keys F1-F12. Each model has a different variant;

It is worth considering that each manufacturing company has come up with its own keyboard shortcut, which should be indicated in the documents accompanying the laptop. If it is not possible to see them, then experimentally they can be easily found. To do this, you will need to try a combination of these keys:

• Fn+F5;
• Fn+F6;
• Fn+F7;
• Fn+F8;
• Fn+F9;
• Fn+F10;
• Fn+F11;
• Fn+F12.

Any of the combinations will definitely work. At the same time, you can find out others functionality neighboring keys, which are responsible for screen brightness, sound volume, and more. For example, an Acer laptop can turn on/off its touchpad by pressing the Fn + F7 keys.

Some laptops have a special key that turns on the touchpad right next to the touchpad itself.

Enable Touchpad via Control Panel

To do this, you need to go:

Control Panel -> Mouse -> Device Options

In the last tab, you can enable or disable the touch mouse. Also here you can make such a setting that when you connect an external mouse, the internal touch will be turned off.

Enable Touchpad via BIOS

Selected laptop models touch panel can be included in BIOS settings. To do this, hold down the F2 or Del button while booting the computer. In the window that appears, select Internal Pointing Device, where Desabled changes to Enabled to turn it on, and vice versa to turn it off.

Checking for Touchpad Drivers

If your touchpad did not turn on using all the methods described above, then you should check if the touchpad drivers are installed at all. To do this, go to:

Device Manager -> open the Mice and other pointing devices entry with the plus sign

If there isn't touch mouse or showing a yellow triangle with exclamation point, then:

1. click right click on the device in the manager and select "Update drivers", if not found, then turn to the next step.
2. Check for their availability installation disk that came with the laptop. If not, go to the next item.
3. Download drivers from the official website and install them.

To date, all laptops and netbooks are equipped with touchpads, but most of the users do not use them so often, since mouse control is much more convenient for many. Perhaps you accidentally disabled the touchpad and now you cannot activate it, I will also talk about this in the article. I will also touch on the reason, how to turn on the touchpad on a laptop, if suddenly it is so needed, but does not react to our actions in any way? There can be several reasons why it doesn't work.

In order for you to deal with the laptop settings for a short time, I will begin to describe the solutions from the easiest steps, and if you can’t solve this issue with simple manipulations, you will have to delve a little deeper.

Fn key

To enable the touchpad manufacturers usually use a keyboard shortcutfnand one of the function keysF1 — F12 and others. Each manufacturer has its own combination, although some buttons may be similar. Take a close look at the F1-F12 keys - one of them will most likely have an image of the touchpad.

Note: A strikethrough touchpad or a touchpad with a finger or a mouse can be drawn on the image.

Found? Then we hold down Fn and add a key with the image of the touchpad to it. On some laptop models, the touchpad is controlled by a dedicated key. In addition, some HP laptops have a key on the touch side of the touchpad that can be double-clicked to toggle it on or off. In the off state, it is illuminated by an LED.

Here are some images on how to disable or enable the touchpad on a laptop:

Touchpad disables when mouse is connected

Laptops have special settings, with which you can configure the touchpad to turn off when a mouse is connected. This is very handy, if you are connecting a mouse, then it would be logical to disable the touchpad, as you are going to use another device to control the laptop.

Therefore, if your touchpad is disabled and you want to enable it, then disconnect the mouse. If these manipulations did not work, then try restarting the laptop with the mouse disabled. In the event that you do not need the touchpad to turn off automatically, you can go to the settings and disable this feature.

How to enable the touchpad on a laptop so that it can work in parallel with the mouse? Click "Start" and go to "Control Panel". In the upper right corner, select "View" - "Small Icons". Click "Mouse". In the "Device Options" tab, disable the "Turn off when an external USB mouse is connected" feature. Now the touchpad should work with the mouse connected.

This setting has two values: "Enabled" and "Disabled". Select "Enabled", save the settings and restart the laptop by pressing the F10 key. The touchpad should now be active.

Touchpad drivers not installed

This situation usually occurs after a reinstall. operating system or after serious failures in its work. Required drivers can be found on the disk that comes with the laptop or you can find them on the Internet.

The easiest way is to go to the official website of the laptop manufacturer and indicate the device model there and get a link to download the drivers. This method is even preferable, the site always contains the most “fresh” drivers and definitely without viruses and any deceptions.

The touchpad is broken or disabled by hardware

How to enable the touchpad if the methods above did not work? I left this option for last, as it requires more time and, most likely, a little financial cost. This variant of events takes place, as it occurs with some users. The touchpad may have come loose inside the laptop, or it may have become defective.

If you have spilled water on the laptop, dropped it or hit it and it works, but the touchpad does not respond to your actions, then most likely you will have to disassemble the laptop to see how things are inside the laptop. This option for experienced users, so it is better to delegate disassembly and solutions to this problem to a specialist who understands laptops. Otherwise, you may be left without a working laptop if you damage an important component inside the device. The choice, of course, is yours, this is just my recommendation.

I described the main ways to enable the touchpad on a laptop in this article, but if you find another solution, then the user whose touchpad does not work will be grateful to you if you share this information in the comments below.

Personally, I don't really like the touchpad or touchpad. This alternative mouse in laptops is not very convenient. It is much more convenient to use a regular mouse, I think many users will agree with me on this. But the touchpad is still needed - you can’t do without it on trips when you have to work on your knees, then an external mouse will most likely only interfere with you. But what if you unsuccessfully run your fingers across the panel, but there is no reaction to this? How to enable touchpad? There are several ways to help solve your problem.

First way

Disable or enable touchpad as easy as pie. As a rule, manufacturers have provided special buttons or keyboard shortcuts for this. If you find the instructions from the laptop, you can probably find it there. If the documents are lost, try using the following combinations - hold down the "Fn" key and at the same time try pressing F5-12. By the way, in this way, you can also find out any other combinations, because each of them allows you to adjust the screen brightness or sound volume, as well as change other computer settings. Let's say if you have an Acer laptop, then in this case you can turn on the touchpad with the Fn + F7 key combination.

Second way

It's even easier than the first one. The thing is that some laptops and netbooks have a button that turns the touchpad on and off located next to the touchpad itself.

Third way

How to turn on the touchpad on a laptop? Sometimes the alternative mouse is turned off programmatically. To check this, you need to go to the "Control Panel", then select "mouse", "device settings", and then disable or turn off the touchpad. You can set the panel to turn off when you connect an external mouse and vice versa.

Fourth way

To enable the touchpad, you may have to dig into the BIOS settings. How to get there? Hold down the "F2" or "Del" key while booting. After that, you will need to find the Internal Pointing Device item. Now change its value from "Desabled" to "Enabled" to enable the touchpad, and vice versa to disable it.

Touchpad not working - what to do

If all of the above doesn't work, and you still don't know how to turn on the touchpad, then there's a good chance the problem is hardware. To eliminate it, you need to disassemble the laptop yourself or contact specialists.

If, in addition to the touchpad, the keyboard and USB ports, then it's a fault motherboard. To confirm or deny this, you need to give the laptop for examination to a service center.

As you can see, the reasons why the touchpad does not work can be very different. And if you can fix some yourself, then in certain cases It is best to entrust expensive equipment to specialists.

(touchpad). Most often, the touchpad is used only when it is not possible to connect a mouse (on flights, trains, etc.). Yes, and it is not convenient, especially if you need to play games =)
Sometimes it happens that while working on a laptop, you accidentally touch the touchpad and the mouse cursor moves or a mouse click is triggered.
In this article, I will show you how you can disable the touchpad so that it does not interfere.

1 way.

To do this, you need a bank card or a piece of paper that can be cut to size. Do you understand what I'm getting at? Yes Yes. We take yes and close this touchpad with a card or paper. For reliability, you can also seal the edges with tape.
The laziest, fastest and operating method on the one hand, and has the right to exist.

2 way to disable the touchpad.

On some laptops, manufacturers have provided this feature on the touchpad itself. Most often found on HP brand laptops. Maybe you have too.
Look at the edge of the touchpad for a little glowing (or not) dot. It is usually located in the upper left corner. So, when you double-click on it, the touchpad turns off.

3 way how to disable the touchpad

It is much more common that the shutdown button is located on the function key. You can read more about this in the article.
Briefly, I will only write that if you press such a button, and with it the function button (blue / cyan / purple / orange, etc. colors) located on function keys from F1 to F12 and on which (most often) a rectangle is drawn, then the touchpad will also turn off and the screen will be something like this:

Frequently used combinations to turn off the touchpad in laptops:

Acer: Fn+F7

Asus: Fn+F9

Dell: Fn+F5

Lenovo: Fn+F8

4 way to disable the touchpad on a laptop

To do this, you will need to go to the Control Panel and disable it from there. Most often in Windows OS, a utility from the company is used. Synaptics. It is called Synaptics Pointing Device Driver.

Let's assume that you have Windows 7, then we follow the path:

Start -> Control Panel -> Mouse -> Mouse Properties -> Device Settings tab

We do it like on, choosing our touchpad and turning it off ( Disable) his. You can enable it in the same way, only by selecting and clicking "Enable" ( enable).

5 way to turn off the touchpad

Without going far from the mouse device parameters (from the previous method), we pay attention to the checkbox “ Disable internal pointing device when connecting an external pointing device to USB port ” to set and the touchpad will be disabled if a mouse is connected.

It's even much more convenient.

There is a small nuance here. Sometimes this checkbox and item is not in the parameters, but you should not think that it should be so. Now we will turn it on.

To get started, try downloading and installing more new version programs (pay attention to the inscription at the top) with .

Let me explain that there you need to pay attention to the version on the site (there is always the latest and newest):

Got it? Not? write in the comments then...

If the version is new or you do not want to update and think that it will work anyway, then try it, I will not forbid it. All at your own risk...

So, go to (keyboard shortcut Win+R and type regedit ).

Do backup(backup) just in case (top menu File - Export). In order not to write in the comments later that because of my article, your touchpad broke, and the keyboard, and "Windows", and the gopniks in the entrance were beaten ...

Go to branch

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh

Create a new parameter (top menu Edit -> Create -> DWORD value (32-bit)) with the name DisableIntPDFeature (if not present).

Set the value to 33 in hexadecimal system, or 51 in decimal (RMB on file -> Change)

We create the same parameter now in the branch HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh(with the same meaning)

We reboot. We rejoice at the checkmark that appears and put it.

5 way how to disable the touchpad touchpad

To do this, you need to enter the BIOS (at boot, press F2 or F8 or F6 or DEL - depends on the version) and look on the tab " Advanced" paragraph " Internal Pointing Device” to be changed to “ Disabled»

6 way hard shutdown touchpad.

Can be unscrewed back cover laptop and find a cable there that goes to the touchpad. And then disconnect it.

But this method is completely for those to whom the touchpad interferes so much that they are ready to neglect all the methods described above and will be able to correctly unscrew all the screws on the laptop and remove the cable (and then how to screw it back if it gets in the way?). But this method also takes place, like the first described.

I think these methods will be quite enough for you to be able to turn off the touchpad.

It doesn't matter what brand you have a laptop or netbook: asus, dell, sony, msi, toshiba, hp, lenovo, acer, samsung, etc. You can still disable the touchpad.