Windows 10: Windows 10 Home Edition - how to disable the touchpad sensor when I'm using a wired mouse?

This is driving me crazy. I cannot type or do keyboarding without my cursor flying around the monitor screen. Ditto for other unintentional commands as I use my laptop. The problem is that huge sensor touchpad that lays under my wrists and hands as I type and keyboard. It's out of control.


I've tried to solve this problem by googling the question. Indeed, I get a lot of responses on Google chrome. However, each and every one of the responses is useless for my machine. I follow the instructions verbatim, but at some point - usually devices, mouse etc - I find that my Windows 10 system simply doesn't correspond to the Windows 10 system in the answer/instruction that I'm trying to execute.


Cannot anyone help? I'm going nuts...I was barely able to finish this post without have to reset my cursor over and over again.


P.S. - I had the same trouble with my old Windows 8 operating system, on a prior computer. But that solution - FN+F5 - doesn't apply to Windows 10 Home Edition.

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I want to disable touchpad on Dell laptop


Hello everyone,
My laptop's touchpad works and I don't want it to, because I prefer a mouse. It's a Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series on windows 10 OS.

What I have tried that hasn't worked:

• start<settings<devices<mouse & touchpad<additional mouse options. This opens a window called Mouse Options which has 5 tabs up top, none of which involve the touchpad. The Hardware tab shows 2 devices: the mouse itself, and the USB. No touchpad there.
• windows key+x<mobility center. No touchpad to be found.
• various function keys. No options for touchpad on/off.
• device manager<mice and other pointing devices. Again, only the mouse and usb show up. It appears the touchpad is working without a driver, which is a little spooky.

Any other suggestions? I could try downloading a third party driver, but that seems like a step in the wrong direction.
Thanks

 

Disabling touchpad gestures in Windows 10

Hi Andrzej,

Precision touchpad is one of the improvements recently brought to Windows 10 to support touch gestures. Is you device running on Windows Creators Update? If yes, follow the steps below to disable touchpad:

• Go to Settings.
• Select Ease of Access.
• Click Touchpad.
• Under Touchpad, toggle the switch on or off.
• You can also uncheck the box beside Leave touchpad on the when a mouse is connectedoption to disable it when you use a traditional mouse.
  

Once done with the steps above, check if the issue will persist.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

How to disable touchpad while accessing mouse on Dell Inspiron n7110 device running Windows 10?

Hi Bunny,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community and being a part of Windows 10.

I understand your concern about disabling touchpad while accessing the external mouse on your device. We will help you with this issue.

I suggest you to follow the below steps to disable the touchpad:

• 
  Press Windows + X keys from the keyboard and click on
  Control Panel.
  
• 
  Click on Mouse.
  
• 
  On the Device Settings tab of the
  Mouse Properties screen, click the Disable button to turn off the Touchpad.
  
• 
  Restart the system
  

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue, we will be happy to help you further.