Guest Bugsy Posted June 29, 2008 Posted June 29, 2008 My desktop crashed a week ago and I am now using my Dell Inspiron 6000 as a temporary workstation, running Windows XP Home. I may be using it for a month or so until I can find a new desktop (hopefully with XP Home installed). My problem is (well, actually an anoyance), I have a Logitech wireless mouse I am using with the laptop. Is there a way to TEMPORARILY disable the Dell's built in mouse? I looked through the Control Panel options (I am using XP Home) but didn't see an option for disabling the built in mouse. Thanks,
Guest Big_Al Posted June 29, 2008 Posted June 29, 2008 Re: Turning off a laptop built-in mouse Bugsy wrote: > My desktop crashed a week ago and I am now using my Dell Inspiron 6000 as a > temporary workstation, running Windows XP Home. > > I may be using it for a month or so until I can find a new desktop > (hopefully with XP Home installed). > > My problem is (well, actually an anoyance), I have a Logitech wireless mouse > I am using with the laptop. Is there a way to TEMPORARILY disable the > Dell's built in mouse? > > I looked through the Control Panel options (I am using XP Home) but didn't > see an option for disabling the built in mouse. > > Thanks, > > > > > My wireless mouse has an check box option to "disable the built in mousepad if this mouse is active". The only issue is that it never turns on the mousepad if I turn off the wireless. But that may be mouse mouse drivers. Just look at the wireless mouse settings. Not Windows. You may not. PS I too have I6000 laptop.
Guest Nepatsfan Posted June 29, 2008 Posted June 29, 2008 Re: Turning off a laptop built-in mouse "Bugsy" <Bugsy@bugtrap.com> wrote in message news:e1mMtWf2IHA.4004@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > My desktop crashed a week ago and I am now using my Dell Inspiron 6000 as a > temporary workstation, running Windows XP Home. > > I may be using it for a month or so until I can find a new desktop (hopefully > with XP Home installed). > > My problem is (well, actually an anoyance), I have a Logitech wireless mouse I > am using with the laptop. Is there a way to TEMPORARILY disable the Dell's > built in mouse? > > I looked through the Control Panel options (I am using XP Home) but didn't see > an option for disabling the built in mouse. > > Thanks, > The manual for your laptop indicates that you should be able to turn off the touch pad through the Mouse Properties applet in Control Panel. According to the manual there should be a Touch Pad tab on the applet where you can adjust the touch pad settings. Just out of curiosity, have you installed the software that came with your Logitech mouse? This software may have replaced the default Windows mouse applet. You might want to uninstall the Logitech program and see if that helps. Good luck Nepatsfan
Guest Gerald Ross Posted June 29, 2008 Posted June 29, 2008 Re: Turning off a laptop built-in mouse Bugsy wrote: > My desktop crashed a week ago and I am now using my Dell Inspiron > 6000 as a temporary workstation, running Windows XP Home. > > I may be using it for a month or so until I can find a new desktop > (hopefully with XP Home installed). > > My problem is (well, actually an anoyance), I have a Logitech > wireless mouse I am using with the laptop. Is there a way to > TEMPORARILY disable the Dell's built in mouse? > > I looked through the Control Panel options (I am using XP Home) but > didn't see an option for disabling the built in mouse. > > Thanks, > I have 3 notebooks. Two are Averatec. I could not disable the touchpad and the touchpad driver usurps the Logitech setpoint. Could not set the default for the wheel click. If I uninstalled the touchpad driver, it promptly re-installed it. After several months of fiddling around I raised the hood and disconnected the touchpad. No more problems. The third is a Compaq (with Vista) that I seldom use. It has a button above the touchpad to turn it off. Nice touch. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA Where do all the characters you BACKSPACE over go?
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