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How to disable touchpad in Dell LAtitude E6420
I am desperate to undertsnad how to disable the touchpad on my Latitude E6420 laptop. The F5 key is showing a pictrue of the keypad but it is nopt working.
Help much appreciated.
Best regards,.>Florenece
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April 11th, 2012 18:00
Hi,
Welcome to the community
To disable/enable touchpad hit FN+F5. This is the manual of your laptop ; http://dell.to/IBDZRa in case you need it in the future.
Regards,
nvarunkumar251
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May 13th, 2012 00:00
hey but FN+F5 is not working
cgemmill11
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June 7th, 2012 11:00
Does this also disable the point stick? I find that the Dell Touchpad application available from the Control Panel usually does not actually disable the point stick.
HW/OS: Dell Latitude E6420 / Windows 7 x64
Thanks!
ts255022
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June 23rd, 2012 19:00
I am having the identical problem: no touchpad options show up under the Mouse window under Control Panel. Function+F5 doesn't appear to affect anything. At this point, I would be willing to go into the bios and completely disable the touchpad if that's a possibility. Without attaching an external keyboard, the built-in keyboard is essentially useless to me for doing real work as I keep accidentally swiping the touchpad while typing. So frustrating!!!
ts255022
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June 24th, 2012 09:00
I was able to solve this problem. I created a restore point, then I went to the support.dell.com and downloaded a new driver. The tab with the option to disable the touchpad is now showing. I have set my computer to show the icon for the touchpad in the taskpad so I can change this setting as needed. All good now!
ag.portia
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June 24th, 2012 11:00
can u plz mention how exactly you did that thing and provide the link from where you got the driver? my touchpad works fine immediately after booting, but once I login into my user account, it doesn't respond at all. I'm guessing that the problem might be the driver.
ts255022
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July 10th, 2012 14:00
I'm in the United States, so the Dell support web site that I went to may or may not be the exact one you need. I went to www.dell.com/.../555 and clicked the "Analyze this system for updates" button. The touchpad driver was one of quite a few drivers that my new laptop needed. I created a system restore point, downloaded the driver, and was able to set the touchpad settings to my liking after that. While I was on that page, I continued to create system restore points and download each of the drivers I thought I might need. Hope this helps! It's an easy answer that I certainly had a difficult time finding.
ts255022
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July 10th, 2012 14:00
www.dell.com/.../drivers
Maybe this shorter form of the link to Dell support will be useful for more people.
roxsolid
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September 4th, 2012 14:00
I was forced to disable the touch pad via the BIOS (it and/or the buttons were driving me nuts popping up context menus and selecting all text and surreptitiously deleting it all), and would like to enable the pointing stick only.
I attempted to install drivers using the following files from the Dell Support site:
Dell Driver Windows R315893
Dell Multi-Touch Touchpad A10 R315893
Is there a way to do this?
LMHubble
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January 9th, 2013 08:00
Hey folks, I installed the ALPS Touchpad .... driver and now FN + F5 works like a charm to enable/disable the touchpad and joystick like a charm.
mdandres05
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March 19th, 2013 22:00
I installed this on a Windows 7 64-bit machine that had the same problem and seemed to fix it.
Dell Multi-Touch Touchpad, v.8.1200.101.112, A12:
http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/555/DriverDetails/Product/latitude-e6420?driverId=MD5G5&osCode=W764&fileId=3113049731&languageCode=EN
JustDoWIT
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April 5th, 2013 07:00
Thank you SO much for this tip to install ALPS Touchpad. When I first got this laptop (over a year ago) I looked and looked for a solution. I asked my helpdesk and they did not have a solution either. This saves tons of frustration. FnF5 to enable/disable touchpad and joystick works great now!
yerby56
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July 20th, 2013 17:00
Dear ts255022, I have a DELL Latitude E6530 and I am receiving a Warning Dialogue box in the first window after sign on that reads as follows: ALPS driver has found IOCTL - error : 320. Using the URL in your reply I find that the touchpad on my latitude has a driver update. Do you think this update would correct my dialogue box warning? Please offer any suggestions you might have to help. Thank you, Joel
ts255022
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July 22nd, 2013 08:00
Hello yerby56, I cannot say for certain, but if you create a restore point before you install the driver update you won't be any worse off than before. I would suggest giving the driver a try.
lmadari
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August 1st, 2013 16:00
I just got a E6430 and haven't been able to disable the touchpad with the previous instructions. Can someone help?
Thanks.