Steve:
"Go Spartans!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before I took the teaching position here at Ferris State, I taught for five
years at Olivet College, about 35 miles south of you.
I came there from Pennsylvania, but it didn't take me long to become a
Spartan fan!
I'll try your step-by-step suggestions for disabling the mouse here.
Actually, I think I got pretty close to what you were saying, but I'll take
it step by step.
Then, I can laugh at those who can't work the laptop without the mouse. I
keep telling folks that doing things by the keyboard as we do is faster and
more efficient.
Thanks, Steve.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: turning touch-pad mouse off on new laptop
> 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
> >
>
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