Hi,
Some laptops have a button you can hit to turn on and off the touch
pad. I have seen it on HP laptops. Also on my Asus laptop if I hit
function f9 it will also toggle the touch pad and the setting is saved.
So if a touch pad user needs the touch pad just toggle it with function f9.
If the laptop supports it, it may be another function f combination.
Chris
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On 2/7/2014 12:00 PM, Bob, K8LR wrote:
Ted,
Microsoft probably figured that if someone turned off the touch pad, they
would be lost, so that's why you can't disable it, but I'm sure glad I found
that checkbox that when checked will turn off the touch pad when a mouse is
plugged in.
Bob, K8LR, [email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Phillips" <[email protected]>
To: "'Bob, K8LR'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 11:23 AM
Subject: RE: Windows 8.1 question
I never thought about that. My laptop has the same problem and I never
thought about using a wireless mouse to disable it. Thanks for the idea.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob, K8LR [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 7:02 AM
To: GW Micro
Subject: Windows 8.1 question
I have solved my Windows 8.1 problem. Several of you suggested that I check
the sort options under the view menu and make sure that ascending was
checked, but the sort options would not show up until I opened file explorer
with the windows E shortcut.
I finally figured out that when I was trying to bring up the view menu, I
was accidentally selecting a file with the touch pad on my laptop. Once I
got the sort options to show up, sure enough, descending was checked and
when I changed it back to ascending, the shortcut to my favorites folder now
read in ascending order again.
I decided to purchase a wireless mouse and turned off the mouse but left the
dongle plugged in to a U S B port which is the only thing that will disable
the touch pad on this laptop.
Bob, K8LR, [email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob, K8LR" <[email protected]>
To: "GW Micro" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 12:25 AM
Subject: Windows 8.1 question
Hi,
I am perplexed.
If I look at the favorites folder in my users folder everything is ok and
the entries are in ascending order. I've saved a shortcut to that favorites
folder on the desktop and suddenly tonight that favorites shortcut started
showing me the entries in descending order. I even deleted the shortcut and
recreated it, but the same thing happened again. Any ideas anyone, or
better yet, how can I fix it?
Bob, K8LR, [email protected]
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