Touchpad disabled on Dell Inspiron 14R

Somehow, I disabled the touchpad on my Dell Inspiron 14R. I was typing and all of a sudden on the right side of the screen, I got a message saying touchpad has been disabled.  Does anyone have an idea how to turn the touchpad on? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank God I have a laptop mouse to use.

Somehow, I disabled the touchpad on my Dell Inspiron 14R. I was typing and all of a sudden on the right side of the screen, I got a message saying touchpad has been disabled.  Does anyone have an idea how to turn the touchpad on? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank God I have a laptop mouse to use.

I use a Dell Inspiron 1420 system. I hope that what I say below apply to your model, because most of the users of other brands could not follow my method.

Right-click on a free space of the desktop > customize > mouse pointers (Yes, the mouse pointer) > here's where others could not follow...
Do you see the Dell Touchpad window? If so, click it > click Device Select Settings button > under the Touchpad, click Activate. Note You can also check "Disable Touchpad/Pointing Stick when external USB mice is present > OK"

Window of the touchpad:

Device select / settings:

Touchpad Enable:

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