Hi again: It was not in the system tray or in the bios. He finally just uninstalled the internal mouse driver. He had to do that in safe mode, as my computer was being very stubborn. He uses an external mouse. if necessary.
Ann Byrne wrote: > On an HP it's function-f7 or function-f2 or something like that to > disable the touch pad. On my toshiba it's in the system tray. > > At 06:24 PM 12/1/2007, you wrote: > > >> I'm not sure what you mean by side tray or acer, but my husband has >> told techs what to do when they've come beforewhen they were setting up >> computers for us, and that feature is nowhere to be seen. mouse >> settings in the control panel offers no help as far as turning the thing >> off. He's got an HP laptop, and loves that feature himself, because >> sometimes he reads text files and doesn't have to worry about it. >> Thanks for the idea though; it was a good one, but Sony doesn't see it >> that way. >> >> Patricia Dunbar wrote: >> >>> 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. 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