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A questão
Toriloukas de leitor SuperUser quer saber como desativar permanentemente o touchpad em um laptop:
I own a Dell Inspiron N5050 laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium installed on it and have been trying to permanently disable the touchpad. I installed the appropriate driver in order to manage my touchpad preferences and successfully disabled it, but once the machine was rebooted, the touchpad was active once again. I really do not care if I need to keep disabling it each time I restart my laptop, but does anyone know of a way to permanently disable it?
Qual é a melhor (ou a maneira mais fácil) de desativar permanentemente o touchpad em um laptop?
A resposta
Os colaboradores do SuperUser, Steven e Scott, têm a resposta para nós. Primeiro, Steven:
Approach 1 – BIOS
The touchpad can often be disabled in BIOS. On my Dell Latitude E6430s, the option is POST Behavior > Mouse/Touchpad. There is even an option to disable the touchpad only if an external mouse is attached.
Approach 2 – Device Manager
Open the Control Panel, then go to System > Device Manager. Navigate to the Mouse Option, right click on it, and click Disable.
Approach 3 – Physically Disconnect
According to a disassembly video (link shown below), it appears that you can unplug the touchpad by removing the keyboard (at 3:45) and removing the small ribbon cable near the touchpad.
Disassembling the Dell Inspiron N5050 [YouTube]
Seguido pela resposta de Scott:
The keyboard shortcut Win + X will open the Windows Mobility Center. On my Dell Inspiron (with Windows 7 installed on it), it looks like this:
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