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I've installed Windows 11 and I want to disable my touchpad. According to other sources, there should be a Toggle in the settings for the touchpad. However, my touchpad settings contains no such thing:

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How do I disable the touchpad?

I'm aware of Device Manager but it's not clear which is the touchpad driver.

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My Device Manager:

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  • Many devices that don't have drivers installed. I bet one is your motherboard chipset driver and as a result it may detect your touchpad as ps/2 compatible mouse, or its as unknown device. Install all drivers with yellow exclaimation mark, and all will start working normally.
    – LPChip
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 15:41

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Do this :

  • Run Device Manager
  • Open "Mouse and other pointing devices"
  • The touchpad might be called "HID-compliant mouse"
  • Right-click it and select "Disable device".
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  • Unfortunately not. I just pasted my Device Manager above. Reckon it's because i'm missing a driver? I did run Lenovo System Update but it found nothing to install.
    – user997112
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 15:13
  • Perhaps you're missing a driver. Do you know the exact model of the touchpad? If you can't find that, what is the model of the computer?
    – harrymc
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 15:30
  • It's an x230 Thinkpad
    – user997112
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 15:31
  • Go to Lenovo Drivers & Software and run the "Automatic Driver Update".
    – harrymc
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 17:09
  • Checking.......
    – user997112
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 17:22
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Your touch pad can be found under Human Interface Devices.

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Keep in mind that you will have to open the device manager as and administrator in order to make changes. You can do this by starting devmgmt.msc and selecting Run as Administrator.

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  • Unfortunately I don't have "Human Interface Devices" in the list
    – user997112
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 15:31
  • Might be one of the unknown devices then. You can try finding/installing drivers for these from the device manager, that will usually also give them more descriptive names in the devmgmt overview.
    – MiG
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 15:34
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  • If your touchpad has an OEM control panel, e.g., Elan's CPL, disable it there. Some manufacturer's even have a setting to disable the touchpad automatically when an external pointing device, such as a mouse or drawing tablet, is active. You might be able to install the CPL from the touchpad manufacturer's site.
  • In Device manager, under Mice and other pointing devices, select the touchpad, right-click and Disable.

Disable Touchpad in Device Mgr

  • Using the Windows Registry:
    • Press Windows, type rege and select Regedit.
    • Accept the UAC dialog to allow Regedit to run.
    • Open the following key, either by copy-and-paste into the location bar, or by scrolling: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad\Status
    • Double-click value Enabled and set it to number 0.

Disable Touchpad in Registry

That value can be saved from Regedit as a .reg file, both with and without the touchpad enabled, giving you two files (e.g., TPadOn.reg and TPadOff.reg) to use to set the touchpad On or Off at will. Just double-click a .reg file and accept the warning about allowing changes.

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  • No idea how to explain this.... but i've done the registry edit but it's still working! (I'm pretty computer literate, so not a complete n00b). My laptop is fairly old, circa 2013. But seems Windows isn't use that reg key??
    – user997112
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 17:26
  • Have you rebooted? Not using "quick start" or from hibernate, but using shutdown /s /f /t 0, which will abruptly terminate all* processes and shut down. Then use power button to start up again. That can be copied and pasted into the Run (Win+R) line or into CMD.
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 20:29
  • I used an actual restart
    – user997112
    Commented Jun 30, 2022 at 22:07

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