How turn off/disable laptop touchpad?

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@sailor

I have exactly the same problem with a Compaq Armada M700 which came with Win 98 but now runs XP Pro. It has a (stupid) EasyPoint IV “pointing stick” which I cannot disable because it does not show up anywhere, control panel, device manager, nowhere.

This page has drivers for other OS but no drivers for XP.

Try the Touch Freeze utility mentioned earlier.