I recently purchased a lenovo flex 3 and i have been unable to disable the touchpad. i have seaarche and tried different things, but to no avail.. Solved: hi guys. is there the ability to disable the touchpad on the w530? i don't see it as an option in the function keys. i am using a mouse and. I've done several searches and can't seem to find a way to turn off my touch pad on my lenovo laptop. i recently updated my laptop with windows 8, so i'm not sure if. Luckily lenovo laptops have a built in keyboard shortcut you can use to disable the touchpad, or you can use the settings in windows to disable it when an external. In june a friend bought a lenovo z50-70 laptop running win 8.1. he particularly dislikes touchpads so uses a mouse. in 8.1 i was able to disable the t.