Saturday, August 6, 2011

How to Disable Dell Mouse Stick Pointer on Windows 7

I personally find this Dell mouse stick pointer very annoying. It always messes up my typing. Thus I always had it disabled. All of a sudden, today it is enabled. It turns out that Dell Touchpad application no longer exists in my laptop. I don't understand how and why this could happen. It could be related to Windows update. In order to disable it, I have to re-install Dell Touchpad application. After the reboot, Dell Touchpad will show up in Mouse Properties so that I can configure it. The following is the procedure of how to disable this mouse stick pointer.
  • If you don't have Dell Touchpad application installed, go Dell Support site to download and install it. Most of time, a reboot is required after installation.
  • Go Control Panel.
  • Select All Control Panel Items.

    All Control Panel Items

    Or type mouse at the search box and then select Change mouse settings.

    Change mouse settings

  • If you have Dell Touchpad application installed, Dell Touchpad tab will show up. Click on the image inside the Dell Touchpad tab content.

    Dell Touchpad

  • Select Button Settings from Dell Touchpad window.

    Button Settings

  • Select Device Select tab and click Disable radio button of Pointing Stick and then click Apply.

    disable pointing stick
  • The mouse stick pointer will be disabled instantly. Click OK and then exit the Dell Touchpad application.

Note that the above procedure/pictures are captured from my Latitude E6510.

7 comments:

  1. the glide stick was funky and caused the mouse to drift but this got it fixed.

    Than you!

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  2. Spot on, solved my mouse drift .... cheers for the advice

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  3. I found a faster easier way to resolve the issue.

    Background:
    I tried to download the software, but I was still without a resolution.
    The application was still not present on my PC

    Resolution:
    Since I was pissed off.. I thought a pair of pliers would do the trick.
    I ripped that F'n thing off. Pulled straight up.
    Some of the protect film came out also.
    As this is a company lease laptop... I don't care.
    Worked great... No more worrying about that dumb-a$$ stick F'n up my emails and scripting.

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  4. Thank you for the instructions. In my case, though, I got rid of the Dell Touchpad tab in another way and recovered it in another way. To return it back, I went to the Start menu, searched for msconfig.exe, opened it, went to the Startup tab, and enabled "Alps Pointing-device Driver". Then it asks you to restart a computer which I did. and YAY! The pointer is disabled!

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  5. Make sure Apoint.exe is enabled at startup using MSconfig. I disabled it and that didn't fix the pointer issue.

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