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If using the Touchpad on a computer to control the cursor while typing, many have encountered the cursor moving randomly when typing. The reason is that when typing, the palm of your hand may touch the Touchpad of the laptop, causing the cursor to move and change position unintentionally, especially on laptops with overly sensitive touchpads or new laptops with missing driver installations.
This disrupts the typing process, sometimes even triggering unwanted software... causing frustration and discomfort for users. However, completely disabling it means having to press the enable button each time we want to use it to move the mouse, which is quite inconvenient. Therefore, to simplify all operations and still maintain good productivity, you should use a tool to automatically disable and enable the touchpad more flexibly. In the following article, Mytour will list useful and common software to disable Touchpad, laptop mouse pad nowadays, let's check it out.
Software to disable Touchpad, laptop mouse pad
1. Touchpad Blocker
Touchpad Blocker is a powerful, useful, and completely free tool with a flexible, automatic mechanism to enable and disable the Touchpad on your laptop. The Touchpad Blocker software will automatically deactivate the mouse pad when you are typing. This prevents accidental mouse movement or selection of text. This feature helps users focus on typing tasks.
The process of detecting input activity on the computer and automatically disabling the touchpad only takes a few seconds. However, users can deactivate this software immediately if desired. Additionally, you can choose notification sounds when the Touchpad Blocker locks the mouse pad, select key combinations to lock it, and choose whether to run the application at startup. Moreover, this program also disables the trackpad so you cannot use the scroll bar. If you have an overly sensitive mouse pad, you may consider using this software.
2. TouchFreeze
TouchFreeze is simple, compact software yet very handy, allowing users to disable the touchpad on a laptop while typing, preventing accidental touches that may cause the mouse cursor to change position while typing on the laptop keyboard.
After installation and activation, the software icon also appears in the system tray. By default, TouchFreeze will automatically start with Windows. If you want to disable this auto-start function, click on the icon in the system tray and uncheck the “Load at System startup” option.
3. Touchpad Pal
Tochpad Pal is a compact and free software that allows you to disable the touchpad function while typing. The difference between Touchpad Pal and TouchFreeze is that during typing on the keyboard, if your palm accidentally touches the Touchpad, the software will automatically lock those actions and display a dialog box to notify you.
Similar to TouchFreeze, after installation, the software icon will be placed on the Windows system tray, and the software will automatically perform its function without the need for additional setup by the user.
In addition to the above 3 tools, some laptop models nowadays come with a built-in feature that allows you to disable the Touchpad and use an external mouse. Readers can refer to the user manual of their laptop for proper setup methods. Along with that, during laptop usage, glitches on the touch-sensitive mouse pad sometimes annoy users, especially when the scrolling direction is reversed. If your laptop encounters this issue, stay calm and follow the instructions in the article on fixing laptop touchpad scroll direction reversed that we shared earlier to continue your work, study, or entertainment smoothly. Wish you all success.
