Auto Disable Mouse Touchpad When Typing

By Nakodari | Published: November 25, 2009

It is a common annoyances with netbooks and laptops which lack the disable touchpad button. Most blogs out there are covering a single method to disable the touchpad, i.e, go to Control Panel > Mouse Properties and then disable the touchpad from there.

The above method is not suitable for those who need to disable the touchpad frequently for short periods of time. Who in his/her right mind would navigate back and forth just to enable/disable touchpad? This could be quite a hectic process.

TouchFreeze is a brilliant little app that solves this problem. It disables the touchpad temporarily the moment a keystroke is pressed. In layman’s term, it disables the touchpad automatically when you are typing and enables it back when the typing is stopped.

It will sit silently in the system tray without disturbing any of your work. Just start typing and don’t worry about the touchpad any more.

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I prefer using this app even though my notebook has a disable touchpad button. Please note that this app might not work with certain laptops, but should work with most netbooks and laptops that lack the disable touchpad button.

Download TouchFreeze

It works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. Enjoy!

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13 Comments

  1. Greg Duncan
    Posted November 24, 2009 at 4:55 pm | Permalink

    Awesome! Thank you for this, you've saved my touchpad from certain death (as I was going to kill the darn thing pretty soon ;)

    Reply
  2. salmanarif
    Posted November 25, 2009 at 5:00 am | Permalink

    Nice! You guys posted my suggestion! ;)

    Reply
  3. khizzo
    Posted November 25, 2009 at 5:17 am | Permalink

    mine tooo

    Reply
  4. Willem Nuijen
    Posted November 26, 2009 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    Doesn't do a thing on my notebook… Can type all I want, tray icon stays the same, touchpad not disabled. Got not special drivers installed for my touchpad, how about you guys?

    [Windows 7 x64]

    Reply
  5. lostboykev
    Posted November 26, 2009 at 7:54 pm | Permalink

    arrgh i have a acer timeline 5810tz… with windows 7.. for some reason this feature is on my system without using your program…. I hate it…. it lowers my productivity when im typing and wanting to switch over to mousepad which takes a second to “renable”. Does anybody know why this is? I have a synaptics touchpad…. Note: again i have never used this program…

    Reply
  6. Willem Nuijen
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 12:46 am | Permalink

    Doesn't do a thing on my notebook… Can type all I want, tray icon stays the same, touchpad not disabled. Got not special drivers installed for my touchpad, how about you guys?

    [Windows 7 x64]

    Reply
  7. lostboykev
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 12:54 am | Permalink

    arrgh i have a acer timeline 5810tz… with windows 7.. for some reason this feature is on my system without using your program…. I hate it…. it lowers my productivity when im typing and wanting to switch over to mousepad which takes a second to “renable”. Does anybody know why this is? I have a synaptics touchpad…. Note: again i have never used this program…

    Reply
  8. Willem Nuijen
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 5:46 am | Permalink

    Doesn't do a thing on my notebook… Can type all I want, tray icon stays the same, touchpad not disabled. Got not special drivers installed for my touchpad, how about you guys?

    [Windows 7 x64]

    Reply
  9. lostboykev
    Posted November 27, 2009 at 5:54 am | Permalink

    arrgh i have a acer timeline 5810tz… with windows 7.. for some reason this feature is on my system without using your program…. I hate it…. it lowers my productivity when im typing and wanting to switch over to mousepad which takes a second to “renable”. Does anybody know why this is? I have a synaptics touchpad…. Note: again i have never used this program…

    Reply
  10. richriot
    Posted December 25, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Permalink

    Lostboykev have you found a soloution to your problem i feel the same way : ( please reply

    Reply
  11. lostboykev
    Posted December 26, 2009 at 2:31 am | Permalink

    I updated my Synaptic drivers to the latest from their website… did the charm

    Reply
  12. NewHope
    Posted April 10, 2010 at 5:51 am | Permalink

    You can also try “Paradisoft Touchpad Locker”

    Reply
  13. Zach Turner
    Posted July 12, 2010 at 8:45 am | Permalink

    Love this program. Saved me so much headache while blogging. THANK YOU!
    I recommended you on my site: http://www.zachstravels.com/archives/1336

    Reply

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