Can the touchpad be shut off? I hate those things.
1234914
Yes. Above the keypad, on the laptop, there are three buttons. The first one is the settings button and if you click on it a window will pop up with a bunch of different settings and turning the touchpad of is one of those options.
1234915
Yes, you can shutoff the touchpad. You can actually do this on all notebook. Just go into control panel, keyboard, then click on the touchpad tab and tell it to turnoff the touchpad when an external mouse is connected. That way when you unplug your mouse you'll be able to move your mouse around, otherwise you won't have a mouse to use if your external mouse stops working.
2279074
Yes, I have that on there now. But, I HIGHLY recommend that you not buy this computer. The keyboard sticks so bad that I can barely type on it, and the track pad sucks too. I bought this for work and wish everyday that I hadn't.
1618914
Sorry, no. I do have a question though, do you have any problems with the touchpad sticking?
787749
The touchpad handles right clicks by tap in the lower right hand corner. There is no physical button and there is no click noise. It works well. By the way, I've been using Chromebooks recently, and I thought they had a two finger tap for a right click, but maybe not. That's another story.
76553
The only suggestion I have is for you to turn off the 'Tapping' function on your mouse pad as you might be accidentally tapping on it as you use your space bar. I haven't had any problems with the two laptops we purchased from Asus, but I did turn off that function on both of them. Hope this helps.
289355
I really can't say as I haven't tried it with one of those. Remember too that this is an Apple keyboard. Also there is no delete key or touchpad.
1738109
Yes. There is an option to disable the trackpad. You can do it on the "Device Manager" level (if you want it permanently off) or at the trackpad driver level - then it will be off only when you have an external HID (i.e. mouse) plugged in. However, after a while you get used to it, actually, and it becomes borderline workable.
1887934
Yes but not sure how. Go to search or help and put in disable touch pad. It should tell you how. I too use a mouse but have not disabled my touch pad either.
1057407
yes sometimes i had turn off my computer to use my touch pad.... it is really inconvenient
1144786
Sorry, but I'm old-fashioned and usually use a mouse. However, I can turn the touchpad on or off using "Control" with the (F6) key; you might try that.
2115367
Yes it can be turned off by pressing the bottom right button on the machine. There will be an audible command and a digital on/off on the base LCD.
161444
Sorry can't help but you should call ASUS and they should be able to let you know how to disable to touchpad.
443527
It cant be turned off. Only the mouse which turns both things off. But the keyboard does ware out the batteries so I never put the lid on the batteries compartment and try to take them out every time. If I forget it doesnt really matter as they do last for some time and most important I use rechargeable batteries here.
1100070
I am not a huge fan of the touch pad. It is very unresponsive at times. Really bugs me. Other than that, it is an excellent laptop.
1849915
Yes. Search for Pen and Touch in Control Panel (this can also be found in system tray by double clicking on "flicks"). Select the Touch tab and uncheck the option to 'Use your finger as an input device'This disables the touch functionality on the HP TouchSmart
91184
No it does not. The touchpad is poor in general. Spoils an otherwise great design.
2033893
I couldn't find anything in the manual on if you can turn this feature off. I happen to like this feature.