On my laptop, you need to go in to bios by holding f8 when you turn on your computer, and disable and enable it in there. Note that there will be no speech in bios, so sited assistance will be needed.
James Scholes ================================================================================ Contact Details: E-mail/MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: james.scholes Phone: (44)7765365980 Check out my blog at http://jamesscholes.wordpress.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Patricia Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 10:34 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] turning mouse pad off on HP > Maybe look in your sys-tray, On the Acer laptops it's in there and I was > able to disabled it on the laptop. > Then your Husband could turn it back on when he needed to? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "carlene knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 3:51 PM > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] turning mouse pad off on HP > > >> Yeh. I love my Sony Vaio laptop, but you can not turn the mouse touch >> pad off, and it is located in front of the keyboard so I'm always >> bumping it. I use a blue tooth keyboard most of the time because I am >> so sick of this problem. I don't want to totally uninstall it if that's >> even possible, because my sighted husband uses it sometimes to fix >> problems, ETC. >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hi >>> I am glad to report that on the HP laptop I recently bought that I >>> am >>> able to turn off the mouse pad through the use of a physical button >>> located >>> at the top center of the mouse pad. This feature might be of interest to >>> those interested in buying a new laptop. >>> >>> God bless, >>> Mark >>> God loves you! >>> >>> >>> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com >>> Address for the list archives: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >>> or body of a blank message to: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php >>> If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the >>> following address: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> >> >> Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: >> http://www.jaws-users.com >> Address for the list archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject >> or body of a blank message to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Use the following form in order to contact the management team >> http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php >> If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the >> following address: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php > If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
