Greetings,
My new Dell Inspiron 15” Laptop (I3541) has just returned from its (first?) warrantee repair. I reformatted its hard drive, installed an official Dell branded copy of Windows 7 Pro, and all seems to be working swell except for the touchpad. The touchpad is hypersensitive such that wrists, palms, and low flying planes all seem to cause the cursor to move. As I need hardly explain, this makes typing rather difficult and frustrating. I’d like to turn the &%#@$ thing off, but Windoze 7 seems to have no option for doing so.
Clarifications:
1. The laptop originally came with (horrors) Windows 8, but I erased it and installed Windows 7 Pro.
2. It is the touch pad, *NOT* the touch screen that is vexing me mercilessly.
3. The problem is not that it doesn’t work — it does. The problem is that the poor design of the touchpad and extreme sensitivity make it nothing but a constant annoyance.
Questions:
a. I can’t find a “Fn” key or BIOS setting for turning the accursed touchpad off. Have I missed on?
b. Is there some other way of turning touch pad off that I’m not aware of?
c. I think that a special-built Windows 7 compatible driver exists for the exact touchpad in my laptop, one that would allow for modifying the touchpad’s operation and turning it off. Can anyone supply me with a link to the official source of the driver?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Kindest regards,
Richard Kanarek
P.S. I can recall logging on to BBSs back in the halcyon days of computing. Often they were run by amateurs, on shoe string budgets. I cannot, however, recall ever encountering a BBS as awful as Dell’s web site, forum, or download area. Thanks, Dell, for wasting yet more of my time. I’ll try to remember the favor next time I go computer shopping.