Windows 10: How to stop my touchscreen from interfering with my mouse and touchpad?

Hi, I have a 15 inch Lenovo IdeaPad 3 that runs using Windows 11 and I noticed a problem with my mouse and touchpad. If my touchscreen driver is enabled for some reason my touchpad stops working and if I plug in my mouse I'll see two cursors where one will be stuck in the top left of my screen and the other is the one I'll be able to control but it will be blinking. This problem only goes away if I disable touchscreen but I don't want to always have to disable touchscreen for my touchpad and mouse to work. Is there anyway I can fix this?

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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

 

Touchpad

Hi Denise,

To address your concern, we suggest that you check if the touchpad is enabled in Mouse Properties.

Please follow these steps below to check the status of the touchpad.

• Click Start and choose Settings.
• Click on Devices. Choose Mouse & touchpad. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click
  Additional mouse options.
• The Mouse Properties window will open. Click the tab furthest to the right (ELAN
  or Device Settings).
• Under Devices, check if your touchpad is disabled. If it is disabled, click the touchpad to select it and then click
  Enable.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Touchpad mouse has stopped working

Hi, have you tried downloading the driver from HP's site?
https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers.../model/5390695




As an outside possibility an update you've received may be incompatible with your PC.

Odd that this didn't work, suggesting some other issue: