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disable the pointing stick?
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 5:10 pm
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Posted by Sanjay (1 messages posted)

How to disable the pointing stick? i have dell inspiron 4000 ... this thing sucks ... the stick

On Friday, April 8, 2005 at 6:45 am, Ken wrote:
>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?
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Ken: Friday, April 8, 2005 at 6:45 am)

Responses to this message:
re: disable the pointing stick? (Adria: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 at 9:59 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Vilnis Vulfs: Mon, Sep 23, 2002, 10:08 am)

re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Bob B: Mon, Sep 23, 2002, 11:27 am)

re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Glenn: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 9:10 am)

re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Vilnis Vulfs: Mon, Jul 7, 2003, 9:58 am)

re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (alx: Thu, Nov 27, 2003, 10:35 pm)

re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (david lucey: Sat, Nov 29, 2003, 1:13 am)

re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Ian: Thu, Jan 6, 2005, 7:26 am)

re: Question about 'Troubleshooting Driver Problems' (Ken: Fri, Apr 8, 2005, 6:45 am)

disable the pointing stick? (Sanjay: Wed, Apr 20, 2005, 5:10 pm)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Adria: Wed, May 11, 2005, 9:59 am)

re: disable the pointing stick? (david: Thu, May 19, 2005, 6:34 am)

re: disable the pointing stick? (esko: Mon, Jun 20, 2005, 6:22 am)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Bill Rockenbeck: Fri, Jul 15, 2005, 1:29 pm)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Tim Wells: Sun, Jan 29, 2006, 11:00 pm)

re: disable the pointing stick? (David Glober: Sat, May 13, 2006, 2:33 am)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Tim Wells: Sat, May 13, 2006, 10:01 am)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Aidan Dun: Wed, Aug 16, 2006, 3:55 am)

re: disable the pointing stick? (andrew: Sat, Sep 23, 2006, 7:39 pm)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Jeanine Braithwaite: Thu, Oct 25, 2007, 9:24 am)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Nick Wu: Sat, Dec 8, 2007, 7:04 pm)

re: disable the pointing stick? (mj: Fri, Jan 4, 2008, 10:36 pm)

re: disable the pointing stick? (fallsoff: Tue, Sep 16, 2008, 3:37 pm)

re: disable the pointing stick? (Jeff: Sun, Feb 11, 2007, 2:21 pm)

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