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]> wrote: > 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 > PCSOFT's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Mark Rode<[log in to unmask]>