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> I am reposting this query from a few months ago as we still have not
> resolved the problem.
> My Grandad has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and we cannot disable the
touchpad.
> The mouse works fine, but when say he is trying to type an email, if his
arm
> moves across the touchpad everything goes haywire and he loses the email
to
> the taskbar. He then gets all flustered and doesnt bother. He is
disabled
> and the use of the touchpad is just not required and is actually making
> matters worse for him.
> The bios has no entry relating to the touchpad and I cannot see any way of
> disabling it.
> Is there some kind of registry hack I can use to disable the touchpad?
> Maybe disabling the ps2 connection? His mouse is usb so would not be
> affected.
> Please help if you can, it is really ruining his computing experience.
>
>

> Beck wrote in message
> news:bt4h2r$pb$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> > I am reposting this query from a few months ago as we still have not
> > resolved the problem.
> > My Grandad has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and we cannot disable the
> touchpad.
> > The mouse works fine, but when say he is trying to type an email, if his
> arm
> > moves across the touchpad everything goes haywire and he loses the email
> to
> > the taskbar. He then gets all flustered and doesnt bother. He is
> disabled
> > and the use of the touchpad is just not required and is actually making
> > matters worse for him.
> > The bios has no entry relating to the touchpad and I cannot see any way
of
> > disabling it.
> > Is there some kind of registry hack I can use to disable the touchpad?
> > Maybe disabling the ps2 connection? His mouse is usb so would not be
> > affected.
> > Please help if you can, it is really ruining his computing experience.
> >
> >
>
> We had a user who decided to do this herself and managed it by gluing a
> piece of rigid plastic over the touchpad area.
> On a brand new Ł2,000 laptop!
>
> Still, this solution did at least work for her even though I felt it was a
> bit drastic.
>
> Stace.
>
>

> Beck wrote in message
> news:bt4h2r$pb$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>> I am reposting this query from a few months ago as we still have not
>> resolved the problem.
>> My Grandad has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and we cannot disable the
> touchpad.
>> The mouse works fine, but when say he is trying to type an email, if his
> arm
>> moves across the touchpad everything goes haywire and he loses the email
> to

> We had a user who decided to do this herself and managed it by gluing a
> piece of rigid plastic over the touchpad area.
> On a brand new ?2,000 laptop!
>
> Still, this solution did at least work for her even though I felt it was a
> bit drastic.

> I am reposting this query from a few months ago as we still have not
> resolved the problem.
> My Grandad has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and we cannot disable the
> touchpad. The mouse works fine, but when say he is trying to type an
> email, if his arm moves across the touchpad everything goes haywire
> and he loses the email to the taskbar. He then gets all flustered
> and doesnt bother. He is disabled and the use of the touchpad is
> just not required and is actually making matters worse for him.
> The bios has no entry relating to the touchpad and I cannot see any
> way of disabling it.
> Is there some kind of registry hack I can use to disable the touchpad?
> Maybe disabling the ps2 connection? His mouse is usb so would not be
> affected.
> Please help if you can, it is really ruining his computing experience.

> I am reposting this query from a few months ago as we still have not
> resolved the problem.
> My Grandad has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and we cannot disable the
touchpad.
> The mouse works fine, but when say he is trying to type an email, if his
arm
> moves across the touchpad everything goes haywire and he loses the email
to
> the taskbar. He then gets all flustered and doesnt bother. He is
disabled
> and the use of the touchpad is just not required and is actually making
> matters worse for him.
> The bios has no entry relating to the touchpad and I cannot see any way of
> disabling it.
> Is there some kind of registry hack I can use to disable the touchpad?
> Maybe disabling the ps2 connection? His mouse is usb so would not be
> affected.
> Please help if you can, it is really ruining his computing experience.
>
>

> Beck wrote in message
> news:bt4h2r$pb$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>> I am reposting this query from a few months ago as we still have not
>> resolved the problem.
>> My Grandad has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and we cannot disable the
>> touchpad. The mouse works fine, but when say he is trying to type an
>> email, if his arm moves across the touchpad everything goes haywire
>> and he loses the email to the taskbar. He then gets all flustered
>> and doesnt bother. He is disabled and the use of the touchpad is
>> just not required and is actually making matters worse for him.
>> The bios has no entry relating to the touchpad and I cannot see any
>> way of disabling it.
>> Is there some kind of registry hack I can use to disable the
>> touchpad? Maybe disabling the ps2 connection? His mouse is usb so
>> would not be affected.
>> Please help if you can, it is really ruining his computing
>> experience.
>>
>>
>
> Navigate through Start - Control Panel - Mouse, and investigate all
> the features there. On the laptops Ive seen there was at least an
> option to disable the
>
> touching the pad = left hand mouse click
>
> function which is really distressing for most users. I think there
> also was an option to disable the touchpad completely. Now it may be
> necessary to install a driver for the touchpad - some use the
> synaptics driver - you should check what came with the laptop.
> Without the touchpad driver there are no special features - you only
> see the same options as you would for a simple mouse.
>
> You could then use an external mouse ....

> Beck wrote:
>> I am reposting this query from a few months ago as we still have not
>> resolved the problem.
>> My Grandad has a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and we cannot disable the
>> touchpad. The mouse works fine, but when say he is trying to type an
>> email, if his arm moves across the touchpad everything goes haywire
>> and he loses the email to the taskbar. He then gets all flustered
>> and doesnt bother. He is disabled and the use of the touchpad is
>> just not required and is actually making matters worse for him.
>> The bios has no entry relating to the touchpad and I cannot see any
>> way of disabling it.
>> Is there some kind of registry hack I can use to disable the
>> touchpad? Maybe disabling the ps2 connection? His mouse is usb so
>> would not be affected.
>> Please help if you can, it is really ruining his computing
>> experience.
>
> Use the Windows Explorer search facility to see if the laptop has any
> Synaptics files or drivers on the C:drive, then delete or move these.
> You might find them in Windowssytem folder.