Dell touchpad icon is missing

turn it on, most laptops have a small button located near the touch pad, u may have mistakenly turned it off
or look in control panel for an icon that controls access to the touchpad

Disabling the touchpad on a Dell Inspiron can be useful when typing for long periods of time, or using an external mouse. Bumping or tapping the touchpad while typing can cause cursor jumping and unwanted results. Use the touchpad software to enable or disable touchpad controls. Download the driver for your touchpad at the Dell Support website.

Click on the "Touchpad" icon in the task bar. If the icon doesn't appear, you can download and install the driver for the touchpad from the Dell website, or choose "Start" and "Control Panel." Choose "Device Select" on the touchpad menu, or choose "Mouse" in the "Control Panel" menu and "Device Select." Click "Disable" under "Touchpad" to turn off the touchpad, or click "Disable Touchpad/Pointing Stick When a USB Mouse is Connected."
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first, make sure the latest touchpad driver is installed. after that, go to control panel, click the mouse icon and on the mouse properties, you should see a touchpad tab where you can find the option to disable it if you use an external mouse. hope this helps. feel free to rate its usefulness

You should have access in the control panel and a button there to put the icon back onto the task-bar.

Hi! I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with a touchpad (this model is a bit older than yours). If you want to see the touchpad icon in the System Tray so that you can change the settings and so forth, here is how to do it in Windows XP:

1. Go to Start, then Control Panel, then Mouse.

2. In the Mouse Properties dialog box that pops up, look for a tab called "Dell Touchpad" and click on it to select it.

3. Click on the big picture of the touchpad with the arrow in the middle of the new dialog box that pops up.

4. You should now see a new window that says "Dell Touchpad" pop up.

5. At the bottom of the Dell Touchpad window, click the checkbox that says "Display icon in taskbar" (you should see a checkmark in this box).

6. You should now be able to see the Dell Touchpad icon in your System Tray.

7. If you still do not see the Dell Touchpad icon, or if you do not see a tab that says "Dell Touchpad," then try re-installing the driver for the Dell Touchpad by going to:

http://support.dell.com

Enter the service tag of your laptop, or its model number (Inspiron 1525), then hit the Confirm button. You should see a new window pop up that shows all the compatible drivers for your laptop. The one you will need in this case is under the section "Input Device Drivers." Look for the driver for the Dell Touchpad, download it, and then install it, if necessary.

Also, please make sure that you can see all the icons in your System Tray. If you can't, then try clicking on the little left-facing arrow in the System Tray, which will expand the System Tray to show all the icons there, and then you should be able to see the missing Dell Touchpad Icon.

I do hope this solves your problem. Please feel free to comment on my solution, and rate me as to how I did. Thank you!

You can change the sensitivity by entering Dell Touchpad utility (in Control Panel -> Mouse, if you DON'T have any external mice installed)

Maybe it is also enough to calibrate the mouse speed in Control Panel -> Mouse.

If you do not see a Touchpad icon in your systray(lower right), go to:

Start/Control Panel/System

On the left choose "Device Manager".

Select "Mice and other pointing devices" and highlight "Dell Touchpad"

Either right click and "Uninstall" or click the uninstall icon at the top.

Restart your machine and it will automatically update the driver from Dell which will put the Touchpad icon back in the system tray.

Click on this icon and go to "Device Select"

Check the "Disable Touchpad/Pointing stick when external USB mouse id present.

Reinstall the driver that will fix it...

Try downloading/reinstalling the touchpad drivers from the 'Drivers & Downloads' page for the Inspiron 1737 on the Dell website

I want to disable my touch pad on a dell d620, but the icon is missing from my system tray ever since upgrading to office 2007. Can anybody help?

Same thing here, I can not find out how to diable the touch paid. I spent an hour chatting on-line with Dell Tech support and they did nothing to help!! I am starting to think it can not be done on this machine. Please someone tell use how to do this?