Let's start with the usual question of computer literacy, "What is the touchpad on a laptop?"
Laptops, notebooks and other similar portable devices (e.g., Tablet PC) are composed, as a rule, built a computer mouse. This built-in mouse is quite different from the usual computer mouse, which can be moved on the table and press the button.
Built-in laptop computers, portable mouse has a completely different device. If the regular mouse moves on the table, the built-in mouse laptop stands, so to speak, tightly. But it is possible to move the fingers of the hand that is completely analogous to the response of normal movement of the computer mouse on the table.
Pros touchpad or why there is a touchpad?
Such a device is still convenient built-in mouse for laptop, where you need to have as little as possible moving parts. It is due to the fact that the computer itself is portable; it is not desirable to have something else to move.
For this built-in mouse, you could not just move a finger, but also to perform many other activities. For example, you can tap the built-in mouse, which is equivalent to pressing the left button of a conventional computer mouse. In more advanced computers, especially in the MAC manufactured by Apple, the built-in mouse movements can be several fingers to rotate the image, increase or decrease the scale and perform much other convenient action.
Also built-in laptop mouse have left and right buttons, fully like the left and right buttons on a standard computer mouse.
Since the actions of the built-in computer mouse portable handheld devices are carried out more often touches the fingers on a rectangular area on the computer, this mouse gets its name "touchpad" from the English word «touch» - touch and «pad» - playground. That is in plain language.
"Touchpad" means "finger touch pad special."
And if we talk in technical terms, the
"Touchpad" means "touch panel".
Cons touchpad or touchpad prevents the user
Any convenience can always find a downside - the inconvenience. This "law of harm" is not bypassed and the touchpad, touchpad mouse built laptop. The fact that this is usually the touch pad is structurally below the keyboard of the computer (notebook, notebook, tablet, etc.). When using the keyboard, you can quietly to him and accidentally touch the touchpad, the same panel (area) located below the keyboard.
The touchpad is not just any touch a finger, but also, for example, collar shirt can be perceived as a call to action. On this false signals to the computer of the touchpad will signal, for example, to move the cursor up, down, left or right.
And now imagine, for example, that you are typing text. And then at some point the mouse cursor "move out" in another place the text where you continue, suspecting nothing, and print text on. Not all owned by touch typing, so when you print all the attention is usually not directed to the screen and the keyboard. And you just do not notice that the cursor has long been "pulled off", and the test is printed completely not where it should be.
Unpleasant another would be. And then have all rights to seek, where "left" text. Removing it from there, move to where the text location. This is very boring at the time of fixing everything.
Therefore, developers of portable computers have long been concerned temporarily turn off the touchpad, touch panel, built-in mouse. Of course, if desired by the user. This function is turned off (and, of course, include, if the touchpad again in demand) is very convenient. Therefore it is always useful to know and be able to use this function.
The touchpad is an analogue of a computer mouse. The appearance of a touch panel feature is due to laptop computers.
At home, where a laptop can be put on the table, many prefer to use a conventional computer mouse. Only in this case included touchpad can strongly interfere.
The question arises: is it possible to disable / enable the touchpad?
Manufacturers bothered about the function of the touchpad off: The notebook has a special key or key combination. For any special technical or software do not need to resort.
version of how to turn the touchpad on a laptop or turn it off
Current models of laptops have a small hole in the corner of the touchpad. This is the button to enable / disable the touchpad. Pressing it twice, you activate or disable the touchpad if it was included. It is very convenient, though this button is not provided on all models of portable computers.
option to enable or disable the touchpad on a laptop
In other laptops to enable / disable the touchpad you need to press the FN and one of the top row of F1-F12. The Fn key is usually located in the lower right corner of the keyboard. On the F1-F12 keys to press, can be judged by them applied to the icon, which is made in the same color with the Fn.
Laptop Sony Vaio enable / disable the touchpad, you can use the keys FN + F1. Click once on the FN + F1 and thereby disable the touchpad. Pressing the FN + F1 touchpad is turned back on.
Icon on / off touchpad normally takes the form of the touch panel - a rectangle with rounded corners (image "platform"), under which shows two small rectangle (like buttons, left and right mouse button), and on top of all this is a cross as the letter "x", which means "turn off". But there may be other mnemonic images of the touch panel, there's computer manufacturers are trying as they can.
variant how to enable / disable the touchpad on a laptop
If for some reason the above methods it is impossible to enable or disable the touchpad special button or by using the function keys, then this can be done through the settings BIOS. To access these settings need during startup Laptop hold down F2 or Del. As a rule, when the bottom of the screen displays the prompt, which is key to press. We must remember that this prompt appears for a very short time. And press this key need at the very moment when the tip is displayed. Otherwise, enter the BIOS setup program will not be possible, you will need to restart the laptop.
In the BIOS settings find the item Pointing Device (literally, "pointing devices"). Change the setting to Enabled (the literal translation of "On"), if you want to turn the touchpad or the Disabled (the literal translation of "Off") - to turn off the device. Then exit and save (usually the BIOS setup menu item looks like «Save & Exit» or «Exit with saving»), the change to take effect.
Remember BIOS settings need to be careful, especially if you do not know what is needed or perform these settings, even damage your computer in a way that could not be repaired, so here is the BIOS «dangerous."
version of how to enable / disable the touchpad on a laptop
Another way to look for information on how to enable / disable the touchpad on your laptop is for this we can use a laptop to his instruction, which recently tend not hard and electronically stored on the hard disk C: notebook usually in the folder "Documentation", but not necessarily in it.
When all 4 options do not work
So, the touchpad is easy to turn on and off. But if the methods described touchpad could not turn on, then probably the device is defective or not installed drivers, for example, by reinstalling the operating system (wanted to say instead of "native" XP install seven, or instead of "native" seven - eight!). But it is, as they say, is another story.
