Tom,

1.  Gointo settings, control panel.

2.  Find the Mouse under the listed control panel aplets, and press enter.

3.  You will be in a multi-tab control box.  On my laptop, there is a device 
tab.  Find that and press enter.

4.  The first thing you will see is a combo box listing all the rodents in 
your PC.  My laptop has two; yours may only have one pointing device.

5.  highlight your pointing device in the combo box.  Then tab to the 
disable button.

6.  Then tab to ok and exit out.

I'm not sure if you'll have to re-boot before it takes affect.  But, if all 
works well, you will find that the mouse will no longer function. 
Obviously, if some keyboard-impaired sighted person wants to use it, you'll 
have to go back in and re-enable it.

"A person cannot survive as a true Spartan fan unless he is a bit of a
masochist and a very large optimist."

Steve
Lansing, Mi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 2:25 PM
Subject: off topic: turning touch-pad mouse off on new laptop


> Folks:
>
> Forgive me for bugging you about another "off topic" issue, but I have an
> issue here that is driving me nuts.
>
> I'm working with the new laptop that the University just got me, and I 
> need
> to know how to disable the touch-pad mouse.  The computer is a Dell
> Lattitude 610 laptop.  I'm using Jaws 7.0, and the operating system is
> Windows XP pro.
>
> I need to disable the mouse because, as I'm sure you understand, the
> slightest wrong move on the laptop where the mouse is gets me off into "no
> man's land".
>
> I tried attaching the supplied USB mouse, in hopes that this would 
> over-ride
> the touch-pad mouse, but, alas,  it didn't.
>
> Thanks, and 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>