By Anne Hirsh
eHow Contributor
The touchpad
on your Toshiba laptop can be very useful, but some people find that it
gets in the way while typing. Your wrists or palms may hit the touch
pad, making the mouse jump to places in your document you do not want it
to go. While using your touchpad to page through the laptops control
panel to disable is easy, once the touchpad is disabled, you may be at a
loss as to how to navigate through the computer system to turn it back
on.
Things You'll Need
- USB mouse (optional)
Without an External Mouse
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Press and hold down the "FN" key.
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Press "F9" and release both keys. This should re-enable your touch pad on any Toshiba laptop.
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Press "F9" twice in a row if a single press does not re-enable the touchpad.
With External Mouse
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Plug a USB mouse into a USB port in your computer. If the mouse has
not been previously used on that computer, you may get a dialog box
asking you to install the mouse driver.
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Follow all onscreen prompts to install the mouse driver, if
necessary, using the arrow keys or the "Tab" key to toggle between
options and the "Enter" key to replace mouse clicks. Once the software
is installed, the mouse will work in the same manner the touchpad did.
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Click on "Start," then "Control panel." (For Windows XP you must
click "Settings" before "Control panel"). Double-click "Mouse" or
"Pointing devices" and select the "Touchpad on/off" or "Touch" tab.
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Click the button by "Enable," then click "OK."