How to Get to the Mouse Properties of a Touch Mouse on a Dell Laptop

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Tip 1 - How do I change my Dell Touchpad settings and preferences? - Ask Dave Taylor

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Rajeev Mecheri | permalink

I have a nice new Dell laptop but am a bit frustrated by one thing: it's the first computer I've owned where if I accidentally tap or touch the trackpad surface the computer thinks it's a mouse click. Messes me up left and right. How can I disable this "tap to click" behavior on the Dell trackpad (touchpad? whatever)? Oh, and it's running Windows Vista, if that matters.

For further reading: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_change_vista_dell_trackpad_touchpad_settings_preferences/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Disabling Touchpad on Dell Laptop

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by John Claudio | permalink

Have tried different solutions to fix cursor from jumping all over screen while typing Word document. One solution suggested disabling touchpad. How do I do this?

For further reading: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2088868/disabling-touchpad-dell-laptop.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - Disable Laptop Touchpad in Windows 8 / 7

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by lydgate | permalink

Effective solutions to disable laptop touchpad via control panel, device manager & freeware. Now you can type freely without the cursor moving erratically
Tags: disable laptop touchpad, mouse properties

For further reading: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-laptop-touchpad-windows-8-7 ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to Disable the Touchpad on your Laptop

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Marge Lillo | permalink

This article describes how you can disable the touchpad (or the track pad) of your laptop computer through built-in settings.

For further reading: http://www.labnol.org/software/disable-touchpad-on-laptop/14052/ ^[4]

Tip 5 - How do you disable the key pad on a laptop and only use the mouse

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mike Khoury | permalink

As Im typing along on my laptop my cursor jumps around and goes all over the place and puts letters where I don't want them. I believe this is due to my hands hitting the key pad. I use a mouse and

For further reading: http://www.tomsguide.com/forum/67079-35-disable-laptop-mouse ^[5]