Tips to automatically turn off the Touchpad when using an external mouse

If you are a regular laptop user, surely the Touchpad feature is no longer strange, right? So what are its pros and cons? and how to disable this feature temporarily. Yes ! All will be in this article….

I. What is Touchpad?

First, I will explain a little to newbers easily: Touchpad is a touchpad, also known as a touch mouse on a laptop computer.

Its advantages are too obvious, it can completely replace the removable mouse that you often use on that desktop (PC). You can hover, navigate the mouse, use the left mouse, right mouse easily.

However, it also has certain disadvantages. For example, when  editing text  , those of you who often type text on a laptop without turning off this function will understand how annoying it is.

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II. How to disable touch mouse on Laptop?

If you are already using an external mouse, I recommend that you turn off the touchpad for ease of work and to avoid unnecessary trouble.

There are many ways we can do this, and in today's article I will share with you some of the ways that I know to best manage the touchpad.

Method #1: Use keyboard shortcuts

Most computers today support keyboard shortcuts to do this. Usually a Fn + key with a certain key (from F1 => F12) depending on the computer line.

For example, as shown below, this computer uses the Fn + F8 key to turn on / off the Touchpad feature. In general, you just need to pay attention to its icon.

For computers that support keyboard shortcuts, it's simple, anyone can use it very easily.

However, there are a few computer lines that will not support this shortcut, for example, my DELL Inspion, it does not support keyboard shortcuts, this time we will use way 2.

Method #2: Install Driver Synaptics Touchpad to manage

It takes a bit of time, but if you do it this way, you can set the touchpad to turn off automatically.

This means that when you connect an external mouse to the computer, the touch mouse will automatically be disabled, in addition, you can also set up and manage the touchpad more easily, for details, please refer to instructions below.

Begin:

1. You can go to this page , then select the download version suitable for Windows that you are using, applicable to all computer models.

2. And if you want to download the most accurate Touchpad driver, do the following (recommended):

For DELL computers:

DELL computer, as I introduced to you before, it provides a very complete driver repository on the homepage and you can download it very easily.

Similar to the previous article, to download the most accurate Touchpad driver for your computer from the DELL homepage.

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For other computer models (Lenovo, Sony, HP, ASUS, ACER)

1. ASUS: If you are using an ASUS computer, go to this address to download.
2. ACER: If you are using an ACER computer, go to this address to download.
3. HP: If you are using an HP computer, go to this address to download.
4. Lenovo: If you are using a Lenovo computer, go to this address to download.
5. Sony: If you are using a Sony computer, go to this address to download.

Instructions for installing and using the Touchpad Driver

After the download is complete, now proceed to install the driver file you just downloaded to your computer.

Execution: Double-click the downloaded executable file (*.exe), or right-click and select Run as adminstrator to run it as administrator

=> Then click INSTALL to start the installation, the installation process is very easy so I will not guide you.

After the installation is complete, the Touchpad icon will appear under the Taskbar as shown below. Double click on that icon to enter the main interface.

Here, you can turn off / on the Touchpad (touch mouse), adjust the mouse speed very easily. This is a prominent advantage compared to using only keyboard shortcuts to turn on and off the touch mouse.

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In addition, you can switch to the Buttons tab as shown below to reset the left and right mouse clicks of the touch mouse. Moreover, you can adjust the speed fast - slow when double-clicking….

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That is for the DELL series, and other computer lines may have a slightly different interface for the Touchpad, for example, as shown below:

Implementation: Go to the Devide Settings tab => check the option 'Disable internal pointing device when external pointing device is attached'

=> And click OK to set the mode to automatically disable the touch mouse when you connect an external mouse to the computer.

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Tips: If you don't see the Touchpad feature on the Taskbar, you can open it manually as follows: Go to Control Panel => at View by. select the display type as Large icons => find the Mouse section and open it come out.

III. Conclude

So, I have shown you how to manage the Touchpad on Laptop very effectively. Hope the trick to automatically turn off the Touchpad when using an external mouse will be useful to you.

Good luck !

Marvin Fry

Update 06 July 2021