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
    2020-02-06T21:06:43+00:00

    Create a new folder named driver & please try unzipping the driver again into this folder.

    Try installing the driver again, if you need screencaps of how to install the driver let me know.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-06T21:54:07+00:00

    Time Lady should stop giving out that particular technical advice on installing old legacy driver over DCH driver. That obsolete advice from www.intowindows.com only worked in the past because it was written in 2017 and DCH drivers have not even come out yet.

    Old legacy drivers include some sort of control panel program that you can dock on the task bar and are big size downloads (BartDee's 19.0.19.63 legacy driver comes in at 88 MB).

    New DCH drivers are base drivers only. The OP's synaptics DCH driver comes at very small download size at 13.6 MB. The GUI app is downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

    Intel's FAQ on the difference between legacy driver and new DCH driver specifically recommends that you DO NOT try to roll back to legacy. It won't work for you, period. Don't even try it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-06T23:29:12+00:00

    JosephT71,

       This is way over my head. I see in your last reply the attached display on Microsoft Updates Catalog and the various Synaptics Drivers but I have no idea where to go to get the OP's synaptics DCH driver and then how to down load and set it up. 

    JR

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-06T23:38:51+00:00

    Have you even tried to see if you have an app called "synaptics touchpad" in your computer?

    Have you even tried to run Microsoft Store to see if you have a pending app installation called "synaptics touchpad"?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-07T00:40:14+00:00

    I don't have an app on the laptop and when I go to the store and download the Synaptics Touch Pad app I get this:

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