Turn off touchpad when mouse is plugged in

#Turn off touchpad when mouse is plugged in install#
#Turn off touchpad when mouse is plugged in windows#

The cursor jumps to wherever the pointer is while typing in text boxes.This can be easily done via Mouse Properties in Control Panel where you have a label called Leave touchpad on when a mouse is connected, so you need to uncheck this option and youвЂ™re good to go. Open Mouse Properties, click the ThinkPad tab and choose the USE TRACKPOINT ONLY pointing option. If you use a traditional mouse over Touchpad, you could automatically disable touchpad when you plug in the USB Mouse. The Synaptics touchpad settings should now show in Control Panel (Mouse Icon).

#Turn off touchpad when mouse is plugged in install#

How do you disable text cursor movement when scrolling horizontally with a tilt wheel or touchpad or rather, how do you make these horizontal scrolling actions only scroll horizontally and nothing else? Disconnect the USB or wireless mouse and install the Synaptic UltraNav driver.

#Turn off touchpad when mouse is plugged in windows#

Since installing Mozilla Firefox on my Dell laptop with Windows 7, I cannot disconnect my touchpad and just use my mouse.Sometimes it appears to work but then it goes back to responding to both the mouse and touchpad. When my thumb touches the touch pad, the mouse moves and the type goes where the cursor happens to stop.I have been to the control panel and turned the touchpad off (disabled) but the pad is still active. On my old laptop there was a check box on the touch pad options that would automatically disable the touch pad when a mouse was plugged in and automatically enable it when the mouse was unplugged. disable-touchpad-mouse-connected-control-2 4. Automatically disable touch pad when a mouse is plugged in I just got a new 7 R3 to replace an older Alienware laptop. After you unplug the external device, the touchpad will work again. When Control Panel opens, go to Hardware and Sound section and select Mouse. RELATED: Auto-Disable the Touchpad When Connecting a Mouse in Windows 10. Scroll down the list of programs (above where you clicked on the start button) until you come to Synaptics Touchpad.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64 rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0 In the same window, you can check the box for Disable when external USB pointing device plug in, which will disable the touchpad pad as soon as you connect an external pointing device.