> How do you go about disabling the touchpad on an Acer laptop?
On my Acer there's an option to disable the touchpad on the Synaptic tab in
the Mouse applet in the Control Panel.
Also try;
Download the latest driver for the touchpad.
Here is where I get the driver.
'Drivers | Synaptics' (
http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers)
more suggestions on a fix here;
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-19681_102-350303.html