Everyone talks about "disable the pointing stick!".  My one and single question is... 
 How does one go about turning off the pointing stick?  I'm on a Dell Inspiron 8000 
if it matters at all.  This pointing stick I used to use ALL of the time and it worked 
fine.  Now, however, it just goes HAYWIRE if I bump it and it takes me a good 2-3 
minutes to bump it to where it stops going haywire.  It usually FLIES to the bottom 
left or upper right corner so fast that I only see the mouse pointer for 2 frames. 
 Sometimes it shoots back and forth between the two corners...  anyway...

So, how do I turn my pointing stick off?  Is it possible to keep the touchpad on?







On Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 7:26 am, Ian wrote:

>Hi, we've been having this problem with some of our Dell laptops as well.  The problem 

>seems to actually be with the "pointing stick" (mini joystick).  Try disabling it, 

>this seems to have worked for us.  Ian.

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