I want to disable the touchpad while having an external usb mouse plugged in, but enable the touchpad when there is no usb mouse. I HAVE TRIED THE COMMAND CENTER OPTION. It doesn't enable the touchpad when I unplug the usb mouse. Any help is appreciated. Also, Im using a razor deathadder black edition, and have the drivers for it installed.
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synaptics touchpad app, hunt around in that and you have an option to disable touchpad when an external mouse is detected.
Just locate the synaptics icon in your notification area ( bottom right )
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Tried it. Didn't work...
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reinstall the synaptecs driver. sometimes it gets ed up for no good reason
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hit FN then .... the insert/tpad button.. that disables the touch pad
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God Im really a noob. How would one go about reinstalling drivers?
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nvm. my response was off. yea, you can enable this on the synaptics touchpad control. it should be in your notification area
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yep mine works perfectly every time.
you definitely been in the synaptics control panel under device settings and checked disable touchpad when external device is plugged in.
As someone else said, I would try reinstalling the drivers from the dell website or direct from synaptics -
Thank you shak541! I never knew that there was this function. I guess Ill just let the buggy software be and use the manual switch.
Touchpad Disableing Help
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Sl344, Aug 9, 2011.