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Think the computer really did not like my uninstalling the TP, but I don't know why. I take note that it would be CHURLISH of me not to make a donation to WTT under these circs!īTT, Firefox has done some NR previously. Perhaps you will redirect me to the correct department.

Trying another reboot, but have retreated to the desktop. Then Firefox became Not Responding and stayed that way. I rebooted and started to report all this here. She kindly gave me the key to disabling the touchpad, and we parted company. Finally ran hardware diagnostic, no problems, looked around some more and told me she could fix the problem for $110, or do a year's additional warranty for $240. First she couldn't see the cursor at all. Cursor was iffy in operation.Ĭalled up Dell. (The touchpad, BTW, was now working again).īlue "thinking" circle appeared permanently with the cursor. It booted up and began behaving erratically. It stuck in the reboot, saying there was a problem, and should it fix itself by returning to a previous working status.įirst I told it no, and it came back to the same place. I said to myself, let's just try uninstalling the touchpad and then see if I can get back in there and reinstall it using the touch screen on the laptop. Therefore, if your BIOS is old, please update it first.Unable to explain why I did not arrive at this easy-to-find place each time I wanted to turn the thing off. This glitch causes the touch screen to work still, even though the BIOS says it's disabled.

After entering firmware, please look for touch screen and then disable it.īut please note that on XPS 9360 there is a BIOS glitch for versions below 1.3.5.

For most Dell PC models, the BIOS key may be F2 or F121.

Restart the Dell PC and press the BIOS key during the PC booting process to enter PC firmware.

In addition, unlike the above methods, disabling touch screen from BIOS and help save power. If you can't disable touch screen through the above methods, you can try this one.

In the control panel categories, click on Pen and input devices.

In the search box on the taskbar, type Control Panel and then open it.

You can also turn off touch screen in Control Panel. How to Turn off Touch Screen on Your Windows Computer? Method 2.

Select the Actiontab at the top of the window.

Select the arrow next to Human Interface Devicesand then select HID-compliant touch screen.

In the search box on the taskbar, type Device Manager, then select Device Manager.

This method is the most common way to turn off touch screen. To turn off touch screen on Dell, you can use the following methods. Read More How to Turn off Touch Screen on Dell