Although the touchpad allows us to interact with the Operating System using the tip of our fingers, it can sometimes be a complete nuisance. It is true, especially when using the keyboard and your palm accidentally comes in contact with the touchpad, it causes the cursor to move to a different location.
Disabling the touchpad can be quite helpful in such scenarios, particularly when you already have a physical mouse connected to your laptop and do not want any unintentional input from the touchpad. As such, I have compiled several ways to disable the touchpad on your HP laptop.
Via Laptops Built-in Functions
Disabling the touchpad on an HP laptop is fairly simple—justdouble-tap on the LED on one of the corners of the mousepad.
On some HP models, there might be a curved dent on the touchpad.Double tab this recessed dent to disable the touchpad. The LED should turn on, indicating that the touchpad is locked.
Also, verify if one of the function keys on the top of the keyboard has a crossed touchpad icon, like the one shown in the figure. If it does, press the Fn key + the crossed touchpad icon key.
When it is disabled, you should see a touchpad icon with a line through it on the screen, indicating that the touchpad is disabled.
Some HP laptops may not have the LED or the recessed dent on the corner, or they may not even have a key to disable the touchpad. In such cases, you may try disabling the touchpad from Windows settings.
Windows allows you to change the settings on built-in devices such as camera, microphones, and touchpads throughWindows Settings. So, you may easily disable the touchpad through the Windows settings.
Alternatively, you may also disable the touchpad through mouse properties. However, these settings may not be available on all HP laptops. You can only do this on HP Notebooks with Synaptics Touchpad driver installed.
The Device Manager contains information about all the devices connected to the motherboard. And with this, you may also disable the touchpad.
When you disable the touchpadfrom the device manager, you cannot access its setting in Windows settings.
BIOS keeps a record of all the hardware components connected to the motherboard and also allows users to change its properties. In our case, you may use it to disable the touchpad.
When you disable the touchpad from the BIOS, the motherboard will not use it. This means theOS will not detect the touchpadand you may only re-enable it from the BIOS.
