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How to Enable/Disable TouchPad PnpDevice when it becomes annoying to handle ?
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EnableDisableTouchPadLenovoLaptop.md
  1. Open PowerShell in Admin Mode(Run As Administrator)
  2. Run following command to get List of All PnpDevices present in the OS/System:
Get-WmiObject Win32_PNPEntity | Select Name, DeviceID
  1. Run following command to filter the data-list and get the Device Info that you want to toggle:
Get-WmiObject Win32_PNPEntity | Select Name, DeviceID | Where Name -Match "HID"
Get-WmiObject Win32_PNPEntity | Select Name, DeviceID | Where Name -Match "HID" | Where Name -Match "mouse" | Where DeviceID -Match "ELAN"
  1. Copy the DeviceID value from the last aforementioned command and use it like below to Disable the device:
Disable-PnpDevice -InstanceId "HID\ELAN0625&COL01\5&14F74DC2&0&0000" -Confirm:$false

OR If your DeviceID value is else:

Disable-PnpDevice -InstanceId "<DeviceID>" -Confirm:$false
  1. Copy the DeviceID value from the last aforementioned command and use it like below to Enable the device:
Enable-PnpDevice -InstanceId "HID\ELAN0625&COL01\5&14F74DC2&0&0000" -Confirm:$false

OR If your DeviceID value is else:

Enable-PnpDevice -InstanceId "<DeviceID>" -Confirm:$false
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