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Can this [^]be of help ?

Here also something I have found:

SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED!!!

All - I've read through this and many forums and have found no solution. I figured it out on my own, so I am happy to share with you!

This solution applies to those who do not have a touchpad disable button on an F key at the top of your keyboard and have the Synaptics driver that does not show the option to disable the touchpad when the external device is present. This also applies to those where the registry key update does not work (as it did not for me).

Here's the solution.

1. Go to the Dell website and get the latest driver for your touchpad. Install it.

2. Once installed, go to c:\program files\synaptics\syntp in your windows explorer.

3. Open the program called DellTpad.exe (there is also one called DellTouchpad.exe -- don't use this one)

4. Once open, click Device Settings.

5. And voila, the old checkbox is there at the bottom! Just click to make this active and it works like a charm.

Source[^]
It is for synaptics, but could work similarly for the latitude.
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