My Lenovo ThinkPad T510 has a BIOS setting, to turn that $%^%$$# thing off. My Lenovo ThinkPad L530 does not have such a setting (but the windows driver does), so I have a piece of heavy cardboard taped over it. Whoever invented the TouchPad, should be shot, and whoever decided to leave out the setting should be right behind them.
FWIW, it seems that there are at least two different TouchPads, and none of them work, for me. It also seems that normal mouse drivers work with them, whether you want them to, or not.