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 >