Unlock gateway touchpad

Some toshiba laptops have trouble with the touchpad locking up. I have tried using a wireless mouse and it has helped whenever the touchpad locks up. to unlock (I'm assuming you mean log in) you can click space instead of using the mouse.

some touchpads have button for that....
some touchpads have lock pattern to lock touchpad.... and also to unlock it
or...
if you have a mouse plugged in then unplug it then restart your comp
then after restart you can plug in mouse back again

one of the buttons on or near your keyboard will enable/disable the touchpad. maybe you hit it accidentally ?

Hi, try pressing Fn & F7, this enables & disables the touch pad.

Q: How do I turn the touchpad or pointing device on or off?A: Follow these steps to turn on or turn off the touchpad and optional pointing device.

1. From the Start menu, click Control Panel.Note: If your Control Panel is in Category View, click Printers and Other Hardware.
   
2. In Control Panel, click or double-click the Mouse icon.
3. In the Mouse Properties dialog box, click the Device Settings tab.
4. Click to select the device you want to turn on or turn off, and then click Enable or Disable.

Found on Gateway website :)

It's possible you need a "driver" for it, or it could be locked in general. It's also possible it just gave out on you.

You can go to the manufacturer's website and it should have a section for drivers. If you have access to a USB mouse, this could also be a temp fix while you replace the drivers.

If the drivers aren't the problem, then maybe it's locked. There should be a little light above the digitizer that has a small button. If you touch that, it should unlock, sometimes these aren't even buttons, sometimes it's just touch to unlock.

If that's not the case, you might have to replace the part which you can find on eBay for probably really cheap, you would just need to know how to replace it, or know someone that can replace it.

reinstall touchpad drivers

there are a few button over the keyboard, one of them is the switch of you touchpad mouse.

If the led of the touchpad mouse button is on, then the touchpad is unlocked.
And viceverse.

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1. The touchpad and external mouse drivers should be able to work together. Just make sure that you have the touchpad enabled. To see if you have the touchpad enabled, hold the Fn key and press F9. The combination Fn-F9 locks and unlocks the touchpad. If pressing Fn-F9 once, twice, thrice does not seem to lock/unlock your touchpad.. then you might not have the Toshiba hotkeys working or enabled. So lets forget it and try step 2. If Fn-F9 solved your problem.. there you go !

Arrow The way it works is you have to keep holding Fn key and have to hit F9 once, that should lock the touchpad. Again if you keep holding Fn and hit F9 again, that should unlock it and so on..

2. Sometimes this solves the problem.. Do a power cycle of your computer.. i.e., unplug the AC.. take the battery out.. Plug the AC back in and try to turn computer ON with AC alone (i.e, leave the battery out and just start computer with AC power).. Once windows loads up and everything is fine, then turn system off. Unplug AC.. put battery back in.. Plug AC back in and restart computer.. All should be working now.. if not, keep reading..

3. Click on START>go to RUN>type devmgmt.msc

4. Now in the Device Manager, click on the + sign next to Mice and other pointing devices. Right click on each device listed under "Mice and other pointing devices" and Uninstall ALL the MOUSE Devices you see listed there..

attention Make sure you ONLY uninstall the Mouse devices and not ALL devices from Device Manager like your CD, Display etc.. Just uninstall the devices listed under Mice and Other pointing devices after you have clicked on the + sign to the left of it..

5.Install Drivers

6. In the page that came up saying Downloads ( All operating systems, All categories ), at the top drop the list Filter by Operating System and select Windows XP (I am assuming you have XP.. if you have another OS, select that instead).. then on the right of it, drop the list Filter by Category and select Touchpad.. then click on the button "Apply Filters"..

7. Now you just see two drivers listed..

09-30-2004 Toshiba Utility
Touchpad Toshiba Touchpad Enable/Disable Utility for Windows XP (v1.27.0.3; 09-24-2004; 5.34M)

06-15-2004 Driver
Touchpad Alps Touchpad Driver for Windows XP/2000 (v6.0.303.5; 05-26-2004; 2.43M)

Click on the Download link on the right.. Save them to your computer somewhere in a folder or desktop, where you can remember.. After the files are downloaded, double-click on the file.. Unzip.. then Run.. and it will install the driver..

8. Restart your computer.. Now the Touchpad should be working fine.. Try Fn-F9 combination.. i.e, keep holding Fn key and tap F9 once, twice to see if it locks/unlocks the touchpad..

If above doesnt solve it, then please post any errors that you get and I will see if we need to try something else. Thanks, CF