How Do I Disable The Touchpad For The Mouse Button Region?

SERIOUSLY DELL, HELP THIS issue. this is insane. we got a **bleep** little dell red notebook with a meesly 32 gb of hdd, and even it has DELL POINTER DEVICES which disable touch pad around button area

yes!  fix the **bleep** thing!! really annoying and stupid oversight to leave this feature

out of the driver.     i just  got an inspiron 13 7000 and this bugs me no end.

FIX IT!

I am trying to solve the same problem and I'm about to send my brand new XPS back if I cannot disable the touch feature associated with the button area!

Have you had any luck?

Bill

I have a new inspiron 14 5000 2 in 1 which has this issue, and no apparent control point. I have had dell tech support remote in, he doesn't quite seem to get the subject, but there are no settings that can be found that deal with this.

I will probably have to return this otherwise fine 2 in1 unless there is a quick fix for this. It basically makes using the touchpad a risk, because every touchpad button tap risks moving the cursor.

I'm with you 1000% on this issue.  Nearly every time I go to click on something I accidentally move the cursor and either click on nothing or click on the wrong thing.  This is terrible.  There has got to be a way to disable the button area of the touchpad.  Who thought this set up is a good idea??  Brand new Inspiron 15 5000 series.

I had the pleasure of multiple email exchanges with 'support' to add/remove/install drivers until eventually they said it was a hardware issue and the touchpad needed to be replaced.

Brand new Inspiron 5750.

I told them it was not hardware (the touchpad worked 'fine') but then insisted it would resolve the issue.

Engineer turned up and duly replaced the touchpad.

Still no way to stop the 'touch' over the 'buttons'.

Arranged for another 'support' person to remote over.

More time passes before he finally conceeds that it's not possible to disable the touch on the button area and it is *not* a stupid design, but it's actually a 'feature'.

That was about 4 hours wasted without a jot of care or interest in the inconvenience their stupid design and woefully untrained support staff had caused.

I had been wondering if I was the only one annoyed by this. I finally decided to take the time to research it and found this disappointing thread. Thanks for the info - even if it wasn't what I was hoping for.

Figure this out Dell - it's not a feature. It's a pain in the **bleep**...

I agree. This is a horrible design. Is there no way to add this to the software driver?

I agree. This is a terrible feature, especially in that you can't disable it at will. I hope that there's a fix for this in the future, or if nothing else, that they don't include this in new computers.

I have the same problem with my Inspiron 3593
I hope they fix it as soon as possible, besides, since it's a feature, it's supposed to be optional

I don't like a touchpad either and use a mouse exclusively and have been totally frustrated by the inability to disable the touchpad.  I finally cut a thin (1/8") piece of plywood 1-1/2" wider than the width of the touchpad and the same height (or depth) and beveled the edges.  I used two layers of double sided tape to attach to the laptop.  Works great so far and doesn't interfere with using the keyboard.  My next step is to go to the MicroCenter (where I bought this) website and dis the laptop.  Maybe if they start loosing sales they'll do something about fixing it.

Add me to the unhappy users list. I tried a piece of plastic sheet to cover the button area, but a finger is still sensed through the sheet. I'm unlikely to buy Dell again in view of this sort of stupidity.

i am so frustrated and disappointed with this XPS.  its the first dell i have had that does not have defined left and right buttons seperate from the touchpad.  how a feature like that could make it to production without an option to disable is beyond me.....