Thinkpads Forum

One of the reasons I love the TP so much is the pointing stick. The touchpad just gets in my way. I've got the T400 with Vista 32 Home. I can disable the touchpad, but it keeps getting re-enabled when it reboots. I know I can unplug it, but sometimes others use it who like that silly pad.

Is this a goofy Vista thing, or am I missing something glaringly obvious?

You should be able to disable it permanently in BIOS.

Well, that's only slightly less obtrusive than physically unplugging it.

I still want to enable it again if I hand it over to a client to fix something in their presentation, for example.

Shutdown, bios change, reboot... it's almost faster with a screwdriver!

May I recommend a #0 Phillips.

I'd preffer a working driver. Any word on Windows 7 drivers? Most of the Vista drivers work... except for the UltraNav, of course

xxPaulCPxx wrote: I can disable the touchpad, but it keeps getting re-enabled when it reboots. I know I can unplug it, but sometimes others use it who like that silly pad.

Is this a goofy Vista thing, or am I missing something glaringly obvious?

Paul,
Don't have a solution, just a "me too" that my T500 with VHP32 also re-enables the pad occasionally, although I think not on every reboot. Got tired of this and turned it off in the BIOS.
RA

perhaps a mechanical solution is called for:
suitable piece of thin cardboard

I'm having an issue with several T400's whose touchpads seem to randomly reenable themselves. Haven't found a commonality yet. I have tried reinstalling the ultranav software (most recent version), to no effect. Disabling in the BIOS is not something I can let my users do as they would never be able to undo it alone should the need arise.

Has anyone had any success in resolving this issue?

Thanks!!

Mine doesn't seem to do it anymore, perhaps I updated the driver since I posted this?

I certainly did not have this problem with Vista Business 64-bit on my T61p. Vista is gone now so I have no way of verifying, but I am quite certain. I cannot use the touchpad, so I know instantly if it has been enabled.

So maybe it was your driver, or maybe it is just another "Home" anomoly. ... JDH

My T500 does it in 7 never in XP however i noticed that it only happens during the login screen which is still annoying but when windows starts the touchpad gets disabled again...

I disabled the touchpad on my Thinkpad by just pulling the plug of the touchpad connector, I had to open up my notebook for that.

My T500 re-enables after ~30 sec.