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Lloyd:
Well, I'm going to pick the laptop up today, and will check for the
synaptics possibility.
I know that Dell laptops are notorious for making it hard to disable the
touchpad mouse, so this may be a bit of a challenge.
I'll keep everyone posted.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic: Disabling touchpad mouse on Dell Lattitude D600
Laptop
>A lot of these touchpads or their drivers are made by a company called
> Synaptics. Their app may be in the system tray/notification area. If
> not,
> it might be on the Start menu. One version I have seen had a tabbed
> dialog
> box, and it didn't take long to find an option to disable the touchpad.
> I'm
> happy that my Toshiba laptop has a little button for enabling and
> disabling
> the touchpad.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Behler
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 4:08 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Off topic: Disabling touchpad mouse on Dell Lattitude D600 Laptop
>
> Hi, everyone.
>
> Regarding the Windows XP laptop I'm about to acquire for use in the ham
> shack, does anyone know what steps are needed to disable the touchpad
> mouse?
>
> As we all know, disabling the mouse is helpful, since it prevents us from
> accidentally winding up in no man's land when in the middle of computer
> work, like contest logging for example.
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
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