It is now difficult to find a job where you don't use a computer and I think most people do their business sitting in front of the screen. The typical rule not to suffer too much from the back and eyes is to keep in a straight position and to stay far enough from the screen using an external keyboard and mouse.
However, when using the laptop this can become a problem because the keyboard and mouse are stuck and it becomes difficult to sit comfortably working on a notebook.
Provided, however, that you purchase an external mouse to alleviate the problem, there is another very unpleasant one.
We start writing an e-mail or a document on Word, we type on the keyboard and we realize, raising our heads that lines are all busted and that what we have written is all crossed.
The problem then is that inadvertently you touch, with the palm of your hand, the touchpad, the laptop mat that acts as a mouse to scroll the cursor, causing accidental movement of the arrow and unwanted clicks.
To avoid this annoyance and write fast on a laptop, without having to worry about where the cursor is, you have to disable or disable the touchpad .
NOTE: In Windows 10 you can disable the touchpad automatically if a mouse is connected, from the Settings> Devices> Touchpad menu.
On Windows you can disable the Synaptic touchpad by locking the mouse from the control settings (On Linux there is Syndaemon); sometimes, on some laptop models, there is a button next to the touchpad to lock it or there is a combination of keys that deactivates it on the fly (on Acer it is Fn + F7).
But if you need to deactivate it and reactivate it often during a day because you write to the computer, perhaps the best way is to deactivate the touchpad automatically so that, as you write, it does not move the cursor and locks until you stop to write.
Touchfreeze is a free and simple program for Windows NT / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 that automatically deactivates the touchpad when you are typing text .
There is nothing to configure, just download and install it and it starts automatically and, by default, is loaded when Windows starts.
This little software works well even if it hasn't been updated in two years and sometimes freezes; in this case it must be closed and restarted.
Touchfreeze occupies only 800K of Ram memory and is neither visible nor heard.
On every Windows laptop or notebook, TouchFreeze is a program that I cannot recommend.
Another small program to disable the laptop's touchpad is TouchpadPal which is enabled with a combination of keys.
