How - where - to disable the touchpad in Vista?

I am running Vista on a laptop Sony VGN-FZ290 and have scoured these forums for the location of a pad touchscreen selector switch, nothing happens.

-There is nothing in either of the tabs under the mouse-> properties of the mouse that relates to the touch pad;

-There is no results for the search of everything about "SCR";

-In the Device Manager under "mice and other pointing devices-> Alps Pointing-device for VAIO--> Driver", the button disable is... People with disabilities. It is gray and unusable.  The "Uninstall" button, this is pending, but for the frequent and fun moments when Bluetooth won't connect with the mouse to do I uninstall and reinstall the mouse in the Bluetooth menu, I need to have the touch pad to move.

Is it possible and to simply stop this unbearable cushion and turn it back on, such as a function key?  (I read something on Fn-> F7, but which refers to something related to the LCD screen).  It is some specific quirks of Sony, or is there another place to watch that I missed?  If I had a dime for every time I deleted something accidentally dropping an inch on this #% $* & ^! buffer while typing, I'd be rich beyond my wildest dreams...

Please notify.

In fact, I opened the properties of the mouse and the chart in my link is totally the same with mine (Windows Vista Business). I don't have the tabs Tapping, int. Miscellanuous and Bluetooth you have. Try this: in the button tab of properties under the button, peripherals, configuration on the menu drop down select your touchpad. It could be a missing device setting tab, and maybe you also don't have the tray icon for your pointing device which could lead you to the mouse a quick way to toggle the touchpad. On the graph, it is a red icon for synaptics, your should be a different icon for Alps pointing device. You also mentioned that the unusable button disabled in Device Manager could be linked to the missing device setting tab. Or it could be the pointing device can be disabled for a reason, or the driver has problem. You can always use the update button in the driver tab?

For the driver download, Sony support: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/select-system.pl?DIRECTOR=DRIVER&PRODTYPE=24

He also a forum if you still have problems.

I hope I could help

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