HP laptop touchpad

[desertrat]

As Arfie suggests if you can find the red square next to the clock that is the synaptics control panel and you can turn off the scrolling. I've done it for my dad on his HP6715b laptop.

[mark w]

Hi Nick.

Managed to resolve this myself last wednesday with my sony vaio laptop.
The touchpad can be disabled by following these simple instructions:

1. decide it would be a good idea to upgrade to a larger hard drive & more memory.
2. Have no idea how to actually do this
3. Turn the laptop upside down and see loads and loads of screws.
4. Decide (in your own mind) this must be the way in......
5. Undo all the screws.
6. Attemt to open up the laptop.
7. Find it difficult
8. Here a small snapping noise.
9. Investigate said noise and find a broken ribbon cable.
10. S**t yourself as no back up has been carried out.
11. Quickly rebuild, fingers crossed hoping for the best.
12. Find that everything seems to be working ok, except for the touchpad, which is now totally inoperative (as are incidently the disc lights on the front)
13. Thank f**k that you have a wireless mouse.........................

You will at this point be in the position that all those annoying touchpad features are now tottaly disabled.....................................

Regards
Mark

NB. Know any cheap Sony Vaio repairers ????????

[Steven]

Originally Posted by mark w

Hi Nick.

Managed to resolve this myself last wednesday with my sony vaio laptop.
The touchpad can be disabled by following these simple instructions:

1. decide it would be a good idea to upgrade to a larger hard drive & more memory.
2. Have no idea how to actually do this
3. Turn the laptop upside down and see loads and loads of screws.
4. Decide (in your own mind) this must be the way in......
5. Undo all the screws.
6. Attemt to open up the laptop.
7. Find it difficult
8. Here a small snapping noise.
9. Investigate said noise and find a broken ribbon cable.
10. S**t yourself as no back up has been carried out.
11. Quickly rebuild, fingers crossed hoping for the best.
12. Find that everything seems to be working ok, except for the touchpad, which is now totally inoperative (as are incidently the disc lights on the front)
13. Thank f**k that you have a wireless mouse.........................

You will at this point be in the position that all those annoying touchpad features are now tottaly disabled.....................................

Regards
Mark

NB. Know any cheap Sony Vaio repairers ????????

so guess your not the person to sort mine out then!!!

[Steven]

Originally Posted by Arfie

Did my previous suggestion not work?

I have also just looked on my Acer laptop which runs Vista and again, you go to Control Panel>Mouse then "Device Settings" tab. Selected the Synaptics touchpad and hit settings and there is another tab marked "Virtual Scrolling" and you can untick vertical and horizontal in there.

Arfie

thanks Arfie this has worked
however
now when I click on tabs, or the scrolling down arrows
I find whatever I am looking at minimizes time and time again

it is so annoying!!!!

any ideas??

[Arfie]

Yep, leave scroll on and learn to love it

Arfie

[Steven]

Originally Posted by Arfie

Yep, leave scroll on and learn to love it

Arfie

thanks

[Arfie]

Sorry, but I've turned it off on my HP and mine works fine. The method you used to turn it off is what my work machine uses and Obviously I'm not in the office right now to check it.

My only other thought is that you maybe have stickykeys on, try holding the shift key for over 8 seconds, then when the menu pops up press cancel, if it's more messed up, do it again to put you back where you started. If that doesn't work, try hitting the shift key 5 times quite quickly, then cancel, again if it messes things up repeat it.

Arfie