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
>