I don't really understand how at some times disabling the touchpad via Control Panel just doesn't work but at other times it does. (having torn their hair out over these sort of issues) Hi denno, glad to see you have retained your sense of humour during all this!, I guess most folks would by now be completely bald Think the computer really did not like my uninstalling the TP, but I don't know why. I take note that it would be CHURLISH of me not to make a donation to WTT under these circs!īTT, Firefox has done some NR previously. Perhaps you will redirect me to the correct department. Trying another reboot, but have retreated to the desktop. Then Firefox became Not Responding and stayed that way.

I rebooted and started to report all this here. She kindly gave me the key to disabling the touchpad, and we parted company. Finally ran hardware diagnostic, no problems, looked around some more and told me she could fix the problem for $110, or do a year's additional warranty for $240. First she couldn't see the cursor at all. Cursor was iffy in operation.Ĭalled up Dell. (The touchpad, BTW, was now working again).īlue 'thinking' circle appeared permanently with the cursor. It booted up and began behaving erratically.

It stuck in the reboot, saying there was a problem, and should it fix itself by returning to a previous working status.įirst I told it no, and it came back to the same place. I said to myself, let's just try uninstalling the touchpad and then see if I can get back in there and reinstall it using the touch screen on the laptop. Unable to explain why I did not arrive at this easy-to-find place each time I wanted to turn the thing off.

How to turn off touchpad on dell laptop