One of the steps put out by dell is to disable the pointing stick.
Dell laptop pointing stick disable.
I finally solved it.
Dell pointstick driver enables optimum performance of the pointing stick.
Click on the touchpad icon on the lower right part of the taskbar 2.
Execute the downloaded file and follow unzip and install instructions.
How do you do that.
The only temp solution we have is to install the touchpad driver and have them disable it each time they login.
A pointing stick is a joystick that is used as a pointing device and it is positioned at the center of the keyboard.
I ve searched and can t find the answer so i m asking.
Start settings control panel mouse dell touchpad device select pointing stick disable.
Be sure to click on apply to save your.
On the latitude e7440 model the hotkey is accessed by pressing fn f5.
Download touchpad pointing stick driver.
Followed by the answer from blaughw.
This package contains the driver for the dell pointstick device.
Multiple users complain that their mouse cursor jumps every where while typing.
As long as the dell drivers are installed there is a hotkey for the trackpoint and touchpad that will toggle the available settings.
A menu will open where you can adjust the settings for the track stick 3.
Most solutions tell me to access a touchpad i cannot access.
Open touchpad by clicking on icon and the settings for the touchpad pointing stick and mouse can be changed.
Dell touchpad icon should show up in taskbar.
Click on the disable radio button and click on apply 4.
Find the touchpad icon and click then click device select then click on pointing stick then click on pointng stick disable.
An alps driver will be installed.
I have a latitude c610 and the mouse cursor is flaking out like a lot of the others do.
To disable the track stick click on start control panel mouse wait for the dell touchpad image to appear and click on the touchpad image click on the option pointing stick or device select you should have an option to disable it there.
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Download a new touchpad driver from dell and install it.
Our challenge is the bloody pointing stick and its buttons.
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Click ok to save the settings and close the window.
