How do I copy and paste using only a touchpad?

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Keyboard Touchpad and Screen

Page 6 of the manual describes left and right mouse button emulation. http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04055643.pdf

Page 6 of the linked manual describe left and right mouse button emulation. http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04055643.pdf

"to copy and paste a paragraph" - I just used my c7 to copy the prior phrase from you the text in your question and to paste it into this "add your solution" answer box. Here's how I did it...... 1-I placed the cursor in front of the word "to", and while holding the touchpad down with my left finger, swiped the cursor through the phrase to the end of the word "paragraph" (thereby highlighting the desired phrase), then lifted both hands. 2- With the cursor over the end of the highlighted phrase, I used my left finger to hold down the "alt" key to the left of the touchpad the clicked the touchpad causing the drop-down copy menu to appear, then lifted both hands. 3-I then used the touchpad to move the cursor over the word "copy" in the drop-down menu and clicked the touchpad.
4-Then I placed the cursor in this "answer" text-box clicked once once. Next I held down the "alt" key to the left of the touchpad and clicked the touchpad to cause the "paste" drop-down menu to appear and raised both hands. Finally I moved the cursor over the word "paste" in the drop-down menu and clicked the touchpad, thereby successfully copying and pasting the phrase from your question. PS - an alternative to holding the left alt key and clicking to get the drop-down menu is to place two fingers on the touchpad (about a half inch apart) and click with both fingers simultaneously. The latter method only works about 75% of the time for me, so I recommend using the alt key.

buy a usb mouse and forget the touchpad, you can try removing the touchpad then restart the laptop then let it find it again and it will reinstall the device. But the problem will probably return. I had a nightmare with this problem on a compaq, which i gave up fixing as it just kept recurring and i purchased a wireless mouse for it

You need to download and reinstall the latest touchpad driver from Acer Support at the following link. Copy & paste the link to your browser

http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Driver/TouchPad/Touchpad_Synaptics_9.0.3_Vistax86.zip?acerid=633640464790858763&Step1=Notebook&Step2=Aspire&Step3=Aspire 5100&OS=V10&LC=en&SC=EMEA_27

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=INSPIRON1545&os=WLH&osl=en&catid=&impid=

download the ALPS touchpad drivers and install
copy and paste the address above it will take you to the new drivers. Human input device.
Hope this works for you, good luck, please leave a rating, thank you kindly

try the FN button and look at the F1 - F12 buttons, one of them should disable the touchpad.

The touchpad is part of the palmrest bezel
You need to buy the Palmrest bezel.
Here is a link:
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=IBM+ThinkPad+T41+touchpad+bezel&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

Click on the link or copy and paste the complete link into your browser.
If I could be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it.
Thanks, Joe



I’m happy to assist further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/joe_8b8c2cd6ce148309

hi D.

your laptop has same components as the Toshiba
Tecra M8-ST3094 !

- try townload the driver fitting to your Windows version at :
(copy and paste the link!)
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=835450&rpn=PTM20U&modelFilter=&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768664

download it directly onto the laptop or any other internet-pc available, transfer the data using usb-flash drive (usb-stick, usb-mp3-player) or burn it onto a CD
- copy the downloaded driver software to your harddisk, the desktop for example, then double-click onto the .exe file(it is a selfinstaller for winxp and win2000) let it work it's magic, reboot the laptop and things should be fine now!

good luck