[Trainer-talk] Current laptops with ability to disable the touch pad

[Reginald George]

Also many of the laptops from HP, Dell, and others have one of the function 
keys on the top row that will disable the touch pad till reboot. 
Unfortunately it varies on each model, so you either have to Google it, or 
find sighted help to look for the touch pad shaped icon on the function keys 
on the top row.  Then hold down the FN key with that function key to disable 
it.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Casey Mathews via Trainer-talk
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 1:34 PM
To: Nancy Coffman ; List for teachers and trainers of adaptive technology
Subject: Re: [Trainer-talk] Current laptops with ability to disable the 
touch pad

Many laptops either have the synaptics touch pad drivers installed, or
if not you can download them. Once installed you can go into the pointer
settings and tick a box to disable the touch pad. Generally this sticks
even after the laptop restarts.

Casey Mathews
http://linkedin.com/in/caseymathews

On 4/1/2015 3:51 PM, Nancy Coffman via Trainer-talk wrote:
> Does anyone know of a current laptop that will allow disabling the 
> touchpad? We are currently using a USB mouse and paper to cover the 
> touchpad. It is not ideal, and does not look professional.
>
> Nancy Coffman
> Sent from my iPhone
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