How do you disable or lock the touchpad on HP ProBook 6570b?

Divya K

• 71 Answers
• Posted on Jul 03, 2009

SOURCE: synaptics touchpad mouse will not move cursor

Update synaptics driver from Hp.com that should fix the issue

Sacraty

• 64 Answers
• Posted on Feb 05, 2009

SOURCE: TOUCHPAD

go to control panel = mouse pointer = look for the pointing device, maybe its called synaptics pointing device on you too then you can unchecked the buttons and even the whole device itself from it.

SOURCE: How do I disable double-click on an HP Pavilion dv4 touchpad?

Hi there Dublin. I recently bought a HP laptop myself, and I believe I can help your situation, or at least I hope I can. Here's what you do: Access your Control Panel>Click Mouse>Click Device Settings>Click Settings> Click Tapping> Click Disable Tapping. That should do the trick. You are not disabling your touch-pad, just the double-clicking that is associated with it. Drove me nuts for about a day, 'til I figured it out..Hope it worked for your notebook.

SOURCE: touchpad is locked

Hold the power button down for a second or two to let the Netbook shut down, then restart. If you had a few windows open it may be frozen and need time to process info. Please give ample amount of time for it to log off. the more you fuss around with it the more it will stay frozen. If all fails hold the power button down until it powers off. I hope it's not your hard drive.

SOURCE: my touchpad is locked. i

Hello,

TouchPad is disabled sometimes for no apparent reasons.To reactivate, first you restart your computer. If no change, you can activate it by going to the mouse properties.

If you are using Windows XP in your computer, you can do the following:

1. Go to control panel>mouse>device settings
2. Click enable
3. Click Apply
4. Click OK


You can press FN+F7 in some laptops.

NOTE: If the troubleshooting above does not work. Click on reset devices>Apply>OK. Then restart the computer.

*****If your computer runs in Windows 7, then follow the following steps.

1. Go to control panel>hardware and devices>Devices and Printers>Mouse
2. CLick on the last setting on the right.
3. Make sure that the mouse in the list is enabled.
4. If disabled Click Enable device.
5. Click OK.


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If the above troubleshooting does not make any changes. Update the driver of your touchpad. You can visit http://www.synaptics.com/ to get the drivers and software needed for your touchpad to work. Or, you can go to the website of your computer's manufacturer because they have the available updates and drivers which you can download and it will surely fix the problem.

It could have been very helpful if you provided fixya with the operating system and the model of your computer enable for us to provide you with a detailed location of the driver of your touchpad if there's a need for you to download it.

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