Fortunately, you can disable the touchpad on a Windows laptop, or the trackpad on a MacBook, very easily, provided you know where to look. If the operating system detects a mouse is connected to ...

Patrick Marshall answers questions about disabling the touchpad on a laptop and how to fix a bug in Windows 11.

The program doesn't actally turn off your touchpad, so you can still use it as a mouse substitute. But when it senses you're typing, it intercepts touchpad commands that it thinks are spurious.

Does anyone know of a way to automatically turn off the touchpad on a notebook (XPS 1330 specifically in my case) when I have my bluetooth mouse on? I'm getting better at avoiding tapping thumbs ...

Learn how to create a shortcut that opens your mouse properties to the dialog that lets you change your touch pad's settings.

OK, I'm stumped. I have an elderly Vaio laptop with an Alps touchpad, Windows 10 Pro. I can't stand touchpads, and I always use a regular mouse. But the touchpad is constantly doing things I don't ...

Go to Bluetooth & devices. Click on Touchpad. Expand Taps and then untick Press the lower right corner of the touchpad to right-click to disable it.

Windows: Back in November we highlighted TouchFreeze, a small utility designed to prevent you from accidentally moving your mouse cursor and messing up text that you're typing while you're typing.