Just start typing and don’t worry about the touchpad any more. It will sit silently in the system tray without disturbing any of your work. In layman’s term, it disables the touchpad automatically when you are typing and enables it back when the typing is stopped. It disables the touchpad temporarily the moment a keystroke is pressed.
TouchFreeze is a brilliant little app that solves this problem. Who in his/her right mind would navigate back and forth just to enable/disable touchpad? This could be quite a hectic process. The above method is not suitable for those who need to disable the touchpad frequently for short periods of time. Most blogs out there are covering a single method to disable the touchpad, i.e, go to Control Panel > Mouse Properties and then disable the touchpad from there. It is a common annoyances with netbooks and laptops which lack the disable touchpad button.