As long as the dell drivers are installed there is a hotkey for the trackpoint and touchpad that will toggle the available settings.
Dell laptop pointing stick disable.
Start settings control panel mouse dell touchpad device select pointing stick disable.
Click on the touchpad icon on the lower right part of the taskbar 2.
Click ok to save the settings and close the window.
The only temp solution we have is to install the touchpad driver and have them disable it each time they login.
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I ve searched and can t find the answer so i m asking.
How do you do that.
A pointing stick is a joystick that is used as a pointing device and it is positioned at the center of the keyboard.
Click on the disable radio button and click on apply 4.
Open touchpad by clicking on icon and the settings for the touchpad pointing stick and mouse can be changed.
Execute the downloaded file and follow unzip and install instructions.
A menu will open where you can adjust the settings for the track stick 3.
To disable the track stick click on start control panel mouse wait for the dell touchpad image to appear and click on the touchpad image click on the option pointing stick or device select you should have an option to disable it there.
Download touchpad pointing stick driver.
Dell touchpad icon should show up in taskbar.
I have a latitude c610 and the mouse cursor is flaking out like a lot of the others do.
Find the touchpad icon and click then click device select then click on pointing stick then click on pointng stick disable.
Dell pointstick driver enables optimum performance of the pointing stick.
Multiple users complain that their mouse cursor jumps every where while typing.
We have dell latitude e6420 and e6430 laptops in the field.
Our challenge is the bloody pointing stick and its buttons.
An alps driver will be installed.
One of the steps put out by dell is to disable the pointing stick.
Most solutions tell me to access a touchpad i cannot access.
I finally solved it.
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When installed this will add the software dell touchpad and the settings icon to your start bar.
Download a new touchpad driver from dell and install it.
