Though your touchpad is a fixed part of your laptop, your computer treats it partly as an external device. To change your touchpad's settings, you have to access your pad's driver, which manages the ...

We suggest starting with a simple double-tap in the top-left corner of the touchpad This should work if your laptop has a Synaptics Touchpad. It’s unlocked when the light in the corner of the touchpad ...

They don't make touchpads like they used to, and if you own a business-class portable PC, that's very good news. An increasing number of PCs built for the business market include what's called a ...

Ubuntu: If you're running Ubuntu on a laptop, and you want to disable the touchpad when you have it connected to an external keyboard or mouse, Touchpad-Indicator is a menubar applet that can help.

Most laptops have a touchpad toggle key. The cursor often reappears immediately. A simple restart can fix many problems.

Q: I have a Dell Inspiron 3558 running Windows 10. I have tried to disable and/or remove the touchpad, which I never use. I have deleted the Dell touchpad app, and it remains active. My problem is ...

Every modern laptop has a smooth square beneath the keyboard designed to help you navigate without a mouse. On a MacBook, it's called a trackpad; on a Windows PC, it's called a touchpad. But ...

Learn how to create a shortcut that opens your mouse properties to the dialog that lets you change your touch pad's settings. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...