you can lock the touchpad so that it no longer happens. Doing so will prevent you from clicking anything, though, unless your laptop has physical mouse buttons or you have a USB or wireless mouse ...

A good test for this is to hit the Caps Lock or ... somehow the touchpad has become disabled. Most laptops have a specialized key for turning the touchpad on and off. Look for an icon that looks ...

Like any first-run product, the TouchPad ... note icon appears near your clock in the top most part of the screen. Tap it, and a small drop-down provides back, play, and forward playback buttons.

Windows 10 touchpad commands If your touchpad has two buttons, they work as left-click and right-click. If it doesn't have two buttons, you can still left- and right-click using touchpad commands.

An icon will now appear next to the navigation bar. When you press on the icon, a menu will appear and one of the options will be to lock screen. When you press on that, your screen will be locked.