Disable Touch Pad on HP Laptop running Windows 10.

Anonymous
2020-02-01T18:31:02+00:00

I can no longer disable Touchpad (Synaptics SMBus Touchpad) on HP laptop with windows 10. Typical Disabling Driver options through Device control panel are not available. Disable driver options are grayed out. Are there other ways to disable the touch pad? Key strokes shortcuts, etc.?

Latest updates installed. Tried to uninstall touchpad but it just reinstalles automatically upon restart.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-02-03T15:18:13+00:00

    Do you still require help?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-02T20:54:24+00:00

    The update you did via the driver update utility may have messed up the driver.

    Is Synaptics still listed under device manager?

    If so then roll back the driver update or choose to manually update the driver>Select show compatible drivers & choose synaptics.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-02T20:50:56+00:00

    I got as far as downloading the precision touchpad driver.  When I tried to run the driver update per your example it came back as Synaptics not found! I first downloaded from Lenovo. So then I tried Softpedia, same result. Exhausting!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-02T17:36:17+00:00

    I didn’t ask you to download any driver update utility as these are mostly unneeded applications.

    Sorry, it should’ve read ‘the download isn’t an app’.

    You should install the precision touchpad driver as mentioned in my link which will then give you the complete options to disable/enable the touchpad when a mouse is connected, offer various scrolling options.

    If you have followed my instructions & changed to the precision touchpad driver within device manager then there should no need for another app.

    Double check the instructions on the site I posted.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-02T16:45:58+00:00

    I found this app on the Microsoft Store. Worth a try?

    SynPegatron App for Synaptics Touchpad function - touchpad and scroll function.

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