Touch-pad

Is it possible to disable the touch pad on my laptop? (i prefer to use mouse). Its often caused my cursor jumping around when accidently triggered by my hands on the compact keypad.

same problem I had! didn't find a way around this… I just try not to touch the pad! (and yea mouse is way better)

You could disable/uninstall the touchpad driver.

My acer aspire has a key-combo that disables the touchpadd and it stays disabled until someone or something presses that combo again…

For a long time I thought my touchpad was dead untill I started looking into it..

But what kazik said should work no matter what. But that is so obvious so one would think that you already have tried to simply disable the device from the device manager?

Thanks! i never thought that - gonna look into the device manager.

I also want to thank everyone that responded! I never thought that it would show up in device manager! will go look! thankies alot

EDIT: Learned something new

I installed the proper touchpad driver and successfully disabled the touchpad through the mouse properties.