How would you go about turning off the mouse with Win. 7?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue


Yes, you can turn it off.

Go to control panel, mouse, hardware tab, properties, and find the disable
radio button.

Steve
Lansing, MI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue


> Speaking of the mouse pad on laptops is there a way to turn this feature
> off in settings? If I can turn it off then I can see if maybe I am the
> cause of Jaws jumping around.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "wild.flower" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue
>
>
>>I have had this happen to me off and on with the past few versions of
>>JAWS. For me it is not a JAWS issue.  I use a laptop and there is a touch
>>pad for visual users to use to move the mouse around.  There is also a
>>small button just above that touch pad that turns this touch pad on and
>>off.  If I do not have the mouse touch pad turned off and I accidentally
>>touch the pad while typing, browsing or anything else the cursor will jump
>>focus and screw me all up and put me in a place I don't want to be.  I
>>found that as long as I keep the mouse touch pad turned off, I never have
>>any problems keeping focus where I want it and everything works fine.  I
>>hope this helps.
>>
>> Your friend,
>> Gena
>>
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Deanne Miller" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:16 PM
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [JAWS-Users] Focus issue
>>
>>> Sometimes when I'm writing an email, or writing in MS Word, the cursor
>>> will jump and all of a sudden I'm typing in the middle of the previous
>>> sentence or the previous paragraph.  And I never know the cursor has
>>> moved until I review my text and find it all mixed up.  It doesn't
>>> happen too often, but I can never figure out what makes the cursor jump
>>> like that. Has anyone else experienced this and, if so, is there any way
>>> to keep it from happening?
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>> Deanne
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>>
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