I want to deactivate my touch pad on my dell inspiron 1525 laptop. Please advise how

- if the your laptop is still under warranty, you can call dell technical support so that they can fix that since it's a mechanical issue

install the touchpad driver, most probably Synatics or Alps form the dell website. and whoosh it will work!

My daughter has the same laptop and I went to Dell's web site and checked on the parts to buy. The keyboard kit that came with a new touch pad would be around $119.oo. She is going to wait until next pay day. Check it out and have a friend replace it, if you do not want to.

1. Ensure the touchpad is enabled in the BIOS
2. Check to see if touchpad works in SAFE MODE (F8 at boot)
3. reinstall the touchpad utility
4. if all of the above have no effect, replace the palmrest assembly

Follow this link and download and install the touch pad driver. Scroll down to Input Device Drivers, select Dell Driver-Touchpad.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=08W&l=en&s=bsdv&os=WLH&osl=en&catid=&impid=&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1525

check the dc power jack connector, open the board. but if under warranty don't open it, bring to warranty..

Hi there.
The touchpad itself is easy to clean but if the liquid has got into the left and right click keys you may have a problem, a warm soapy partially dry cloth will take the residue off the touchpad but the soda may have got to the circuit board causing it to be slow to react.
To clean the left and right keys and under the touchpad you have to take the laptop apart, remove the keyboard and the front cover and clean under that where you can get under the left/right click keys and the ribbon cable of the touchpad.
This type of job is not for the novice and i would advise having a technician do it whether it's in or out off warranty, preferably Dell themselves.
Other than that the best option would be to buy a wireless or wired mini mouse which are much easier to use than the touchpad itself.

Please post back with the results and more help if needed, good luck and thanks for using FixYa!!

Check your user manual. Usually, "Fn" key in combination with one of the functional keys will disable touchpad.

Let's try resinstalling the touchpad software first:

If you're using XP it's HERE

If you're using Vista it's THIS ONE

Let me know if that works.

my toch pad dont work when my laptop is charging i have inspiron 1525