Most of us find it very cumbersome while using laptop because of the touchpad. It often happens that most desktop users when switch to laptops find the touchpad the most interrupting element specially while typing on the keyboard. Even the slightest touch of the touchpad by your hand moves the cursor here and there and you find it really awkward to correct the typing again and again. Therefore one seeks to get rid of the touchpad activity or make it dead for sometime till the work is done. How to disable the touchpad of your notebook or laptop?

Well it is very easy to make your touchpad dead provided that you know the exact process how to do it. You need to remember the steps through which you move step by step ahead to make your touchpad dead because you have to reverse the process to make it active again. One process by which you can keep way the touchpad activity is using a mouse, but it doesn’t make the touchpad dead, so let us find out how to make the touchpad dead.

All you need to do is manipulate the system settings and memorize the changes that you would want to make the touchpad dead. The settings of disabling the touchpad actually depend on the laptop model. However the basic setting steps of almost all the laptop models remain more or less the same. The settings only need to make you put the right command.

Click on the Start button and move to Control Panel. There go to the option of mouse and it will open the option of Mouse and Trackpad Properties. In those properties you will need to ‘Uncheck’ the trackpad option and this will deactivate the trackpad totally. As mentioned perform the task but, remember that you have to repeat the same options but click the ‘Check’ option to activate the trackpad again. Isn’t it simple?