found this info on other forums about a Dell latitude I will list all of the various ways that I saw; you can go to Control Panel > Mouse and select the Dell Touchpad tab. There should be a Device Select icon which will give you the option to turn off the touchpad and/or touchpad buttons. Alternatively, for those who want to turn off the pointing stick and/or pointing stick buttons, there are also options to disable or enable those. *Start-->Settings--Control Panel double-click mouse and there's an option there to disable the touchpad *"For all of you having trouble enabling or disabling the touchpad: Turn on or off the Fast Initialization button under hardware properties for the Touchpad. Fast Initialization = On, then reboot, you are now able to turn the touchpad On or Off from Mouse Properties Hope this helps, it was a PITA to figure out." *Just go to control pannel and double click on 'mouse'. There should then be a tab called 'Touch pad' and click on that. There should then be an option 'Tap off when typing' enable that and your problem should be solved. It also said that if you do not find those options there then it is possible your touchpad drivers are not installed which would allow you to make the changes. "If the control panel only shows things about a "mouse", the touchpad drivers are not installed. You could try www.synaptics.com for drivers." found this on the dell site *Customizing the Touch Pad and Track Stick You can use the Mouse Properties window to disable the touch pad and track stick or adjust their settings. Open the Control Panel, and then click Mouse. For information about the Control Panel, see Windows Help and Support Center. In the Mouse Properties window: * Click the Device Select tab to disable the touch pad and track stick. * Click the Touch Pad tab to adjust touch pad and track stick settings. Click OK to save the settings and close the window. I hope out of those maybe something will work

Jerry I bought an Acer convertible laptop/tablet and the finger control does not work well at all, it did a first but not now. I am off to buy a mouse today. I couldn't even find a way to turn it off without goggling. LOL I installed the classic shell so I could set it up and customize it . After I do that I am going to use the W 8 start screen and learn it. It is is quite a change working without a right click and I keep reaching for a mouse. I did Google a bit and found a way to right click, takes two hands. I haven't found a way to toggle between the shell and w 8 start page yet. Will work on that after I get a mouse.

I keep hitting the touchpad with my wrist and when I first got my Lenovo and the keyboard always changes on its own from US Eng to Cdn multi and also when I skim the touchpad my page zooms. I have desensitized the touchpad and wish I could turn it off because I don't ever use it. I have gotten used to it though and can get right back to the way I was working, this touchpad is much larger on the Flex than it was on my old Thinkpad. That computer didn't haveX a number keypad and this one does so I am also typing off key haha because the keyboard isn't centered. Getting used to it though finally. Something just showed up on my taskbar and it was Lenovo Messenger for when Lenovo wants to send messages about upgrades, etc. At least that is what I think it is for. This Lenovo is so much lighter than my other one even though it is bigger because of the number keypad.

zep Strange! I turned off and then tried to restart the PC and as I suspected it did the same boot to Lenovo screen and stop again. First a little about the connections. I have the Logitech USB and the Microsoft mouse and keyboard USB plugged into the two USB ports on the front of my PC. I shut down the PC and pulled the Logitech USB out of the front and plugged it into a rear port and tried a restart. No luck. I then pulled the Microsoft USB out and the computer booted to the desktop! I had to plug the Microsoft USB into the other port on the back of the computer and as of now, I haven't tried to restart the PC. I am going to wait until later to see if the PC will boot normally now that I've swapped everything around? (I have things I need to do and am tired of messing around with it) None of this happened until today when I tried to power on? I just don't get it? If I still get the problem, it can only be the mouse or maybe a problem with one of the front ports? Both devices (mouse and headphones) work once the PC is running! Well the headphones work fine but the mouse is getting to be a PITA! The cursor is almost uncontrollable and it is FRUSTRATING! The OS is Windows Ten