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Originally Posted by JSWolf
With current laptops, the touch pad can be disabled if you have a mouse active. You can also change the sensitivity of the track pad on current and older laptops.
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I've seen loads where the touch pad is in the device driver as a USB mouse (even a newish Win10 machine). In theory then you can turn that off by disabling in the Device Management, but then you need a real mouse to turn it on again if using the computer somewhere without space for a mouse. Especially in Win10 if there is no touch screen.
If the track/touch pad is using a suitable device driver, then in Linux or Windows you can either disable when typing (not reliable on either OS) or disable it entirely. SOME computers do have even a BIOS setting to automatically disable internal touchpad (even if it reports being a mouse, PS/2 or USB) if an external mouse is added. On my 2002 Dell that only works with a PS/2 mouse, not a USB mouse. I do have a USB mouse that works with a PS/2 adaptor for that (most now don't) for the rare occasions I need that laptop.