hp laptop touchpad issues

My wife uses my 13" Dell Latitude and a wireless mouse, the Fn + another F key works to turn the Touchpad off. The same was necessary for her previous Toshiba Notebook. None of my Notebooks, 4 that I've rehabbed instead of junked, have the auto-insert feature. My other Notebooks use Bluetooth mice.

As to the rehabbed Notebooks, they have been given to me for any parts I can use. If I can get them fixed I usually give them away when needed, last summer sent 4 to Honduras with a mission trip through the church and half a dozen around our small town over last 20 years.

those settings are not ther in the touchpad setting in settings.

If you mean the precision touchpad settings I mentioned how I got them to appear. I guess you didn't try that.

You have multiple possible solutions above- at least 1 should work for you. You just have to work thru logically and carefully, and remember to consult the Tutorials section here.

This is relatively easy for most PCs but some seem to have fewer options, and these differ. There are many touchpad types and different drivers. Options vary. Here are two I referred to on this old laptop: sensitivity and palm check.




Your driver will look different and offer different options.
This question has been addressed on tenforums before.

corvairbob said:

ok after a few restarts with updates in tha touchpad setting on classic shell it finally came up and let me enable it and there was a check box for turning it off when a mouse is plugged in. so it is finally working in a round about way. those settings are not ther in the touchpad setting in settings. thanks.

For others reading this please note that it helps to mention any customization or third-party software such as Classic Shell or StartIsBack, StartAllBack, etc. early in the post as those things can affect any solutions or may be the problem.

thanks i did try it and that menu does not show up. in fact the drivers are not even for the mouse and it has the same driver for the mouse and touchpad.

Just for completeness.. with respect to the precision mouse driver, you're correct that the driver wasn't appropriate for my particular mouse, as it wasn't for yours. But as I said, installing it and uninstalling it left me with the options I wanted in Settings.
Obscure, but there we are.