Most people are more likely to use a USB mouse-often a miniature travel mouse-in that situation. When I'm using my laptop at a desk or other semipermanent location, I plug in a USB tablet to give me more precise cursor and mouse controls. Well, what the technique lacks in elegance it makes up for in simplicity.īut what if you want to disable your touch pad only when you have a mouse or other input device plugged in? That's my situation.
One person I know actually taped a business card over his laptop's touch pad. It qualifies as one of the major annoyances of notebook-computer users: inadvertently moving the cursor by brushing against the touch pad while typing.
