On 2/20/2012, Thip posted:
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
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Often I use the pad on my laptop to move the cursor. However, I began using
the mouse more recently. I have a Gateway MX6453 laptop about 4 years old.
My thumbs often accidentally hit the pad while typing, and the cursor goes
to some random place where I'm typing, brings up a new window, or to a lot
of other unintended places. How do I turn off the pad?

Been following this thread because of my own problems. Here's what I ended
up doing:

Checked Mouse in Control Panel and saw two (no option to disable)
Unplugged the mouse and went back to Control Panel
Uninstalled the one that was left
Rebooted and plugged in the mouse
Touchpad gone!

I posted the same idea just two minutes before reading your post. Looks
like I'm a day late and a dollar short!

Great minds and so forth...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)