Can't turn off Synaptic Touch Pad on Laptop. Using usb mouse.

I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade. We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along. We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work. But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD. That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine.
I downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse. Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one). Still no joy.

Any ideas?

On 1/7/19 10:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine. I
downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

One more thought, can drivers be pulled from an image backup of the old
system?

On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 22:13:00 -0500, Big Al wrote:

I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade. We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along. We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work. But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD. That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine.
I downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse. Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

Can you turn off the touchpad in the BIOS?

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On 1/7/2019 9:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine. I
downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

The Windows 8.1 user manual indicates holding down the fn (function key)
and hit the F1 key to turn on/off the touch pad. Give it a try and see
if the keystroke feature is still working for you.

I have an old laptop that came with Vista and my models keystroke method
still works on that machine even after upgrading to Windows 8, Windows
10, and even after a fresh install of Windows 10.

On 1/7/2019 10:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine. I
downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

Have you changed any of the parameters in the Windows Settings.

It you go to Setting, Devices, Mouse, Additional Mouse Settings, Device
Settings

There is an option to turn off the internal pointing device when an
external device is attached. I have not checked it as I use both touch
pad and mouse depending on what I am doing, but you may try checking it.

You can access the same screen from the Touchpad option.


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On 1/8/19 1:42 AM, rp wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 22:13:00 -0500, Big Al wrote:

I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade. We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along. We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work. But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD. That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine.
I downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse. Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

Can you turn off the touchpad in the BIOS?

Now that's hitting it with a hammer but maybe. I'll check.

On 1/8/19 3:14 AM, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
On 1/7/2019 9:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows
8.1 and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013,
it just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I
tried to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via
VAIO center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I
gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine.
I downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

The Windows 8.1 user manual indicates holding down the fn (function key)
and hit the F1 key to turn on/off the touch pad. Give it a try and see
if the keystroke feature is still working for you.

I have an old laptop that came with Vista and my models keystroke method
still works on that machine even after upgrading to Windows 8, Windows
10, and even after a fresh install of Windows 10.
That's the first thing I checked. I seem to have all the other F keys
working but F1 is non functional.

Big Al wrote:

I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS
the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.

Does Fn+F1 toggle it?

On 1/8/19 7:33 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 1/7/2019 10:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows
8.1 and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013,
it just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I
tried to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via
VAIO center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I
gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine.
I downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

Have you changed any of the parameters in the Windows Settings.

It you go to Setting, Devices, Mouse, Additional Mouse Settings, Device
Settings

There is an option to turn off the internal pointing device when an
external device is attached.Â* I have not checked it as I use both touch
pad and mouse depending on what I am doing, but you may try checking it.

You can access the same screen from the Touchpad option.


I've googled so much my eyes hurt. Got the obvious places in settings
that let you turn off if an external mouse is connected, or just flat
out disable driver checkbox, but to no avail.

Even found a registry hack to disable the touchpad but to no avail
either, and I'm going to go back this morning and reset that just in
case it's doing something wrong.

On 1/7/19 10:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine. I
downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

The whole idea was to get some speed out of this laptop as it's only an
i3 intel processor. 2.4ghz but only i3. I had this spare 250g ssd and
a fresh install seemed so simple. Yeh right!

I'm now at the logic of just dropping the old one back, and get a larger
SSD and just do an clone to the new SSD. It won't clean out the
garbage but it will carry over the good garbage ie the mouse. SSDs
are cheap and I'm spending too much time.

On 1/8/19 8:15 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Big Al wrote:

I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS the synaptic touchpad has no
provisions in device manager to disable the mouse.

Does Fn+F1 toggle it?

Nope, and the other Fkeys work.

On 1/7/19 10:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows 8.1
and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013, it
just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I tried
to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via VAIO
center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine. I
downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

Oh, and the camera (webcam) doesn't work. But I've found drivers for
it from Sony but that's still not a fix. I even found an update for
the motherboard chipset and that didn't change anything.

We moved 2 years ago, and I swear I had a box marked VAIO or the
original box it came in. Either way, we have no literature or anything
from the sale. And no CD's came with it. It was an open box. I also
waited too long to try the Sony recovery cd software and it failed to
work. So basically it's a perfect storm. Any one thing could put me
in a better position.

But hell it was only a $299 laptop and it's lasted 6 years and a $75 SSD
might give it a few more years.

On 1/8/2019 8:21 AM, Big Al wrote:
On 1/7/19 10:13 PM, Big Al wrote:
I have a Sony Vaio laptop SVE15124CXS model and it came with windows
8.1 and upgraded to 10 during that freebe upgrade.Â* We got it in 2013,
it just keeps plugging along.Â* We have no system disks, by the time I
tried to make the 8.1 recovery discs, the whole recovery software via
VAIO center would not work.Â* But with windows 10 digital license I
gave up.

Everything worked fine, and now after years I decided to put in a 256G
2.5" SSD.Â*Â* That works fine too and windows loaded and activated fine.
I downloaded the 1809Oct update 64bit.

One of my biggest issues is the synaptic touchpad has no provisions in
device manager to disable the mouse.Â*Â* Even disable when USB Mouse is
plugged in.

I've deleted the driver and rebooted and there is still as synaptic
mouse, and updating just puts in a better (the old one).Â* Still no joy.

Any ideas?

The whole idea was to get some speed out of this laptop as it's only an
i3 intel processor.Â* 2.4ghz but only i3.Â*Â* I had this spare 250g ssd and
a fresh install seemed so simple.Â* Yeh right!

I'm now at the logic of just dropping the old one back, and get a larger
SSD and just do an clone to the new SSD.Â*Â* It won't clean out the
garbage but it will carry over the good garbage ie the mouse.Â*Â*Â* SSDs
are cheap and I'm spending too much time.


There is another simple solution, and that is just replace your 6 year
old computer. You probably spent over $100 for the new disk, and are
talking of buying another one.

So far you have at least $100 and probably $200 and many hours of
research for a solution, plus several many hours installing and
reinstalling the OS and programs. What have you got? A 6 year old
patched up computer that has a weak part or bad ram that will shortly fail.

Every computer that I have ever owned, died. With each, I tried every
thing I could think of to fix the problems I was having. With one
computer, I was reinstalling the OS and programs every few months, when
that no longer worked. With the last, I was run ChkDsk, when I heard an
audible "POP".

If you go into any big box store, or office supply store you can buy a
new computer that will have a faster processor (more cores, newer
technology), a 1TB disk and 8GB of ram for less that $500.

To me it seem the choice from and the point of economics is obvious.

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2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre

Big Al wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Does Fn+F1 toggle it?

Nope, and the other Fkeys work.

Under Start, settings, touchpad, do you have an on/off slide switch?

Andy Burns wrote:
Big Al wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Does Fn+F1 toggle it?

Nope, and the other Fkeys work.

Under Start, settings, touchpad, do you have an on/off slide switch?
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