sony vaio and the touchpad

I want to turn the touchpad off on my wifes sony vaio
but in control panel it isnt ther under the mouse icon - where do i control
the touchpad?
Thanks
Eric

My laptop isn't a Sony, but many use the Synaptec touchpad.
Usually if you have a mouse plugged in, it works in addition to the
touchpad.
I have never found it necessary to disable the touchpad, and if you did and
the mouse or port failed, how would you get it back?

A number of the Sony VAIO laptop lines have strange issues with the
touchpad reacting in reverse with no real fix available.

If it's because she's accidentally bumping the touchpad with her thumb, rest
assured that over time she will develop the habit of holding he thumb
differently as she types. I learned that when I got my first laptop....

I want to turn the fool thing off, i have an external mouse, but if you
accidentally brush the pad while typing, your mouse jumps all over the place
and screws up everything.
Great! Thats good for you but not for me.
When have all the USB ports ever failed? As long as one works you can plug in
a mouse.

Is she running Linux? That can be done by editing the xorg.conf file.

I found this by googling "disable sony vaio touchpad"...

Go to C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series and run
VCCPointingDevice.exe. Untick the "Enable" checkbox and voila - this would
disable the touchpad. You could create a shortcut to the file above for easy
access!

To enable the touchpad you need to run the same executable and tick the
"Enable" checkbox. You need to have an external mouse to move around and if
you are a GNU-Linux freak, I guess you can make you way around without the
mouse.

I have had my Sony for a while, and I can not type
on it because of the Mouse Pad. The Pointer jumps all over the place just
like yours. It's really terrible.

I appreciate Lori's shortcut method. I've been doing it the long way.
Under Start > All Programs, look for "Vaio Support Central" and click on
"Vaio Central" TouchPad options are there.

I've set a Windows shortcut to the program Lori provided. :>)

I believe I use to turn this off in the BIOS. I don't remember anymore.

I've noticed the newer HP laptops have a button that turns the TouchPad
on/off. I think this is a great idea, and one I've been waiting a long time
for.
Sony is just terrible in this design.

Does Sony not have a touchpad driver on their website? They should do.....

[YodaPug]

Help! I've just reformatted the hard drive on my Sony Vaio and installed Windows 7 (to escape the dreaded Vista originally installed). Now I've discovered I need a copy of "vccpointingdevice.exe" as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, to control my touchpad. Can't find a copy anywhere through Google. Can anyone help with a location for a copy? Thanx.

Gordon - The problem is twofold - My exact Model Number of Vaio is "not found" on the Sony Website when I do a search for it. So I don't get any further in trying to get into their "Support" area. Secondly I believe what they have are bundled packages of drivers, in ".EXE", executable format, which probably unbundles a whole heap of drivers & (maybe) installs them for a particular model. I don't want to do this as who knows what this might do to my Windows 7 setup, which otherwise is running very nicely. I'm hoping that someone with a Vaio of around the right model, say about 3 years ago, will be able to make it available for me out of their \Sony folder... I do have a request in with Sony for help on this but have heard nothing so far. It will be interesting so see if a real person answers, rather than the usual "canned" automated responses one usually get from manufacturers, which have nothing to do with the exact problem... Peter.

Try one of the laptop support forums, post in the Sony section. FWIW,
I have doubts that the old driver will work, but it's worth a shot.
You might also find some additional Vista/Win7 driver knowledge there.

[BarryJS]

Disable the Sony Vaio TouchPad - After my Vaio was installed with Windows 7, I had the problem of accidentally touching the TouchPad and the cursor jumping somewhere else. I prefer to just use a mouse. I tried using some of the other recommendations that I had found, however the Sony Support Central did not exist, neither did Sony Setting Utility Series or VCCPointingDevice.exe.
Maybe the Windows 7 install blows these all away.

The solution given to me was to type "mouse" at the Start /search button, select the Control Panel - Mouse item, go to "Device settings" where it has Synaptics Pointing Device, and shows a device of "Wheel Mouse", and click on Disable.

Can also be used then to Enable it again if you want to.

[keriivy]

you should be able to open the VAIO control center and disable the touch pad there. that is how I disabled mine and it worked fine.

[T.Plant]

Originally Posted by Eric

I want to turn the touchpad off on my wifes sony vaio
but in control panel it isnt ther under the mouse icon - where do i control
the touchpad?
Thanks
Eric

Search "Vaio" in start menu search. 2) Select "Vaio Control Center" 3) Select "keyboard and mouse" 4) Select "Pointing Device" 5) Uncheck "Enable"

You may receive an error that states something like "You must click at least once" This only means you need to double click with your mouse. To change more settings like turning off the multi-touch functions of your touch-pad click "Advanced" in the lower selections. Hope this helps :)

[g_central]

Found the solution for his today.

Install the synaptics driver from here.

(don't think it really matters what model vaio you have, as long as you don't already have the driver)

Restart the computer to complete the install

In Mouse under control panel, select the synpatics tab and disable the mouse.

Done.