Don, In my Dell inWin7, you can turn off the touchpad by getting your list of systray icons and there's one for the touchpad control software. I can't remember if you right click it and use a context menu, or double click it and go into the software; but this lets you do it in such a way that it's easily undone if a sighted person wants to help you, or use, your pc.
You can also disable the touchpad as you say in the device manager, but then it's really difficult for a sighted user to deal with that. Chip Chip Orange Florida Public Service Commission Computer Systems Analyst 850-413-6314 -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don H via Talk Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 9:42 PM To: Pamela Dominguez; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: laptops and window-eyes I could be doing it the wrong way but for stopping such things as the finger print reader I just go into the device manager and disable it. One other issue I have had with a HP laptop and Windows 10 is that the touch pad has no way to turn it off. There is no special function key, a place to hit on the touch pad nor a BIOS way to disable it. In the case of the HP Envy laptop I have there is one driver that allows you to disable the touch pad if you have a external mouse plugged in however with the Windows 10 auto update feature the driver gets updated that prevents this from being turned off. There is a way to turn off auto updates for drivers under advanced system settings but apparently the last update broke this feature, least that is what the Microsoft disability hot line person I talked to said. I did finally find a driver that allowed the disabling of the touch pad that Windows 10 did not want to update. If there is a issue with windows 10 that I don't like it is the auto updates you can't disable. On 11/2/2015 8:17 PM, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote: > That only works in windows ten though, am I right? Pam. > > -----Original Message----- From: Raj via Talk > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 5:08 PM > To: don bishop ; Window-Eyes Discussion List > Subject: Re: laptops and window-eyes > > Okay, here are some instructions if this is the one you have. > Replace the word click with enter on. > To disable finger print, do the following. > Step 1 > Click the Windows "Start" button and choose "All Programs." > > Step 2 > Click "Access IBM" from the list of programs. Select "Fingerprint Software" > and click "Control Center." > > Step 3 > Choose "Settings" and select "Logon Settings." Remove the check marks next > to "Replace windows logon with fingerprint protect logon" and "Power-On > Security." > > Step 4 > Close the open windows and restart your computer for the changes to take > effect. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "don bishop via Talk" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 4:56 PM > Subject: Fw: laptops and window-eyes > > >> If the lenovo isn't the best choice can you suggest something better? >> I know some laptops use proprietary sztware which may not work as well >> with screen readers. >> >> Thanks, >> don >> >> >> ----- Forwarded Message ----- >> From: Raj via Talk <[email protected]> >> To: "Rick Jarvis" <[email protected]>,"Window-Eyes Discussion >> List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, November 2, 2015 12:38 pm >> Subject: Re: laptops and window-eyes >> >>> >>> >>> I know, the Lenovo is not the best one for us, I use to work with >>> some of >>> the clients who had them, and had to advise the company/supplier to >>> change >>> it. was a nightmare for some people. >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Jarvis via Talk" >>> <[email protected]> >>> To: "Pamela Dominguez" <[email protected]>; "Window-Eyes >>> Discussion List" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 3:30 PM >>> Subject: Re: laptops and window-eyes >>> >>> >>> > Is there any way to disable it? >>> > >>> > On 11/2/2015 12:24 PM, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote: >>> >> I just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad with a numberpad. It's thinner and >>> >> somewhat lighter than my Dell that doesn't have one. But the keys >>> are >>> >> all squished together, so you have to watch out when you use it. The >>> >> other thing that is annoying is that it has that awful finger print >>> >> thing that's in the middle of everything and things happen when you >>> >> accidentally touch it. Pam. >>> >> >>> >> -----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange via Talk >>> >> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 12:04 PM >>> >> To: don bishop be Window-Eyes Discussion List >>> >> Subject: RE: laptops and window-eyes >>> >> >>> >> Hi Don, >>> >> >>> >> While Marilyn's point is a nice one, and I have such a Dell laptop at >>> >> home with a numpad, it weighs about 5 pounds. If you want one which >>> >> weighs around 2 pounds which you can easily carry around with you, I >>> >> don't believe it will be possible to get one with a numpad on the >>> >> keypad. >>> >> >>> >> Marilyn's suggestion of carrying around an external numpad is one >>> way >> of >>> >> dealing with this, but as she says, an awkward one. It's not the >>> only >>> >> one however; Window-Eyes does offer a laptop keyboard layout >>> >> specifically for those keyboards which don't have numpads. They move >>> >> all the functions which would be handled by a numpad on to other >>> keys. >>> >> >>> >> Alternatively, instead of using the WE laptop layout, almost all >>> >> laptops >>> >> have a special key which make a group of keys centered around the >>> j, >> k, >>> >> and l keys act like they are a numpad when you hold down this special >>> >> key. This is how I used WE with my previous Dell laptop which was >>> >> smaller, and which did not have a numpad on its keyboard. I found >>> >> this >>> >> very easy to adapt to (actually easier than switching to the laptop >>> >> layout), although you may need some sighted help (or support help >>> from >>> >> the manufacturer) initially to find the special key, and to know what >>> >> keystrokes it generates when used with other keyboard keys. >>> >> >>> >> So, it all depends on what your needs are, and which keyboard you >>> wish >>> >> to purchase, and how you wish to adapt to not having a numpad if you >>> >> want the smaller laptops; but don't think you could ever adjust to >>> >> some >>> >> different layout, it's much easier than you'd believe. >>> >> >>> >> Hth, >>> >> >>> >> Chip >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Chip Orange >>> >> Florida Public Service Commission >>> >> Computer Systems Analyst >>> >> 850-413-6314 >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -----Original Message----- >>> >> From: Talk >>> >> >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> >> Behalf Of don bishop via Talk >>> >> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 12:21 PM >>> >> To: [email protected] >>> >> Subject: laptops and window-eyes >>> >> >>> >> Any suggestions for a laptop which works well with window-eyes? 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