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Ken,
TouchFreeze has helped me out with this annoyance.
https://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/
Jerry
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Ken Shearer <[log in to unmask]>
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> Recently purchased a refurbished Dell Latitude E6520 laptop with Win 7
> Pro, quad core Intel, and 8 GB of RAM. Works great, except I use a mouse,
> and the touchpad and buttons are a nuisance in that when I type, I
> inadvertently hit one of them, and the cursor jumps to somewhere else on
> the page, and my typing ends up in the wrong place. Neither the owners
> manual nor the online help for the machine address this issue.
>
> My wife has a Dell Inspiron laptop, and the owners manual tells you very
> explicitly how to disable the touchpad and its buttons.
>
> As a temporary fix, I made a small plexiglass "bridge" which covers both
> the touchpad and the buttons so that I can't actually touch them, and thus
> the cursor remains where it belongs. But this fix is inconvenient in that
> you can't completely close the lid.
>
> Anyone know how to disable the touchpad and buttons on this particular
> machine?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ken
>
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