Does anyone know of a way to automatically turn off the touchpad on a notebook (XPS 1330 specifically in my case) when I have my bluetooth mouse on? I'm getting better at avoiding tapping thumbs ...

The touch pad-control options available to you depend on your make and model of laptop. Some systems include a setting that lets you disable the touch pad automatically whenever a mouse or other ...

Patrick Marshall answers questions about disabling the touchpad on a laptop and how to fix a bug in Windows 11.

The program doesn't actally turn off your touchpad, so you can still use it as a mouse substitute. But when it senses you're typing, it intercepts touchpad commands that it thinks are spurious.

Q: My main computer is a laptop, and it has a built-in touchpad. However, I prefer my wireless mouse, and the touchpad has become a major nuisance. Every time my hand accidentally brushes over the pad ...

Windows: Back in November we highlighted TouchFreeze, a small utility designed to prevent you from accidentally moving your mouse cursor and messing up text that you're typing while you're typing ...

Q. How can I stop the touchpad on my laptop from treating random taps as mouse clicks?