Turning off a laptop built-in mouse

[Guest Bugsy]

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]

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]

Re: Turning off a laptop built-in mouse

 

"Bugsy" <Bugsy@bugtrap.com> wrote in message

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> 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]

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.

 

 

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Gerald Ross

Cochran, GA

 

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