deactivating touch pad on laptop when using wireless mouse

Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my dell
laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i don't
accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!

Check in Control Panel (Classic View) > Mouse. Depending on the touchpad
driver you have, sometimes there will be an On/Off switch to enable the
touchpad function. There may also be a switch to disable the touchpad
function when a USB mouse is detected, which I think is a function of
IntelliPoint from Microsoft. Do you have the IntelliPoint 6.1 for Windows
Vista software installed for your Optical Mouse 3000?


"Emily" <Emily@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my dell
> laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i don't
> accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!

Hi dean-dean!

I looked in the control panel and under mouse but there is no button to
click on for it and when I take out and replace the wireless mouse, nothing
pops up asking if I want to switch off the touchpad and I don't know what
program is installed that lets me use the mouse because when I switched to
vista, i believe that the previous program was deinstall and a new one
replaced it. I looked for Intellipoint....and I got nothing.

"dean-dean" wrote:

> Check in Control Panel (Classic View) > Mouse. Depending on the touchpad
> driver you have, sometimes there will be an On/Off switch to enable the
> touchpad function. There may also be a switch to disable the touchpad
> function when a USB mouse is detected, which I think is a function of
> IntelliPoint from Microsoft. Do you have the IntelliPoint 6.1 for Windows
> Vista software installed for your Optical Mouse 3000?
>
>
> "Emily" <Emily@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news36360A6-2BB9-4501-BE77-BBB37F9663CB@microsoft.com...
> > Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my dell
> > laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i don't
> > accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!
>
>

Go here to download and install the IntelliPoint 6.1 for Windows Vista
software for your Optical Mouse 3000:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mo...indows%20Vista

There won't probably be anything popping up to ask if you want to turn off
the touchpad. You'll have to set things up in Control Panel >Mouse, if the
options are there. Installing the above might help. Also look in Control
Panel (Classic View)>Device Manager, and expand the "Mice and other pointing
devices" category, and look at the names of the devices listed. Tell me
what you see. If one says PS/2 Mouse, your software for your touchpad isn't
probably installed either, and you're only using a generic driver, which
won't give you many choices in Control Panel >Mouse. You may have to get a
Vista driver for your touchpad, too.

"Emily" <Emily@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C8519E63-4BBA-48CE-8970-7834FF68797F@microsoft.com...
> Hi dean-dean!
>
> I looked in the control panel and under mouse but there is no button to
> click on for it and when I take out and replace the wireless mouse,
> nothing
> pops up asking if I want to switch off the touchpad and I don't know what
> program is installed that lets me use the mouse because when I switched to
> vista, i believe that the previous program was deinstall and a new one
> replaced it. I looked for Intellipoint....and I got nothing.
>
> "dean-dean" wrote:
>
>> Check in Control Panel (Classic View) > Mouse. Depending on the
>> touchpad
>> driver you have, sometimes there will be an On/Off switch to enable the
>> touchpad function. There may also be a switch to disable the touchpad
>> function when a USB mouse is detected, which I think is a function of
>> IntelliPoint from Microsoft. Do you have the IntelliPoint 6.1 for
>> Windows
>> Vista software installed for your Optical Mouse 3000?
>>
>>
>> "Emily" <Emily@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news36360A6-2BB9-4501-BE77-BBB37F9663CB@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi! I'm using a microsoft wireless notebook optical mouse 3000 on my
>> > dell
>> > laptop, but how do i turn off the touchpad on the laptop so that i
>> > don't
>> > accidently use that while using my mouse? Thanks!
>>
>>