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The touchpad on my friends laptop is not woking. I thought he may have disabled it by mistake but changing the settings has failed to make it work. Does he need to download new drivers for it?
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If you want to disable your touchpad, go into control panel/system/devices/hardware and select your touchpad device. The sub menu will allow you to disable it.
Right click on the open space of the desk top > Personalize > Mouse Pointers (yes, mouse Pointers ) > click the red pointer to change touchpad settings > Button settings > disable both Touchpad and Touchpad buttons > OK
Step 1: Click on Start and then click on control panel.
Step 2: Hardware and Sound......Devices and Printers....Mouse.....Mouse Properties.....Device Settings.....Touchpad.......Enable........(Windows 7).
Most probably, your friend disconnected the cable connecting the touchpad to the motherboard while disassembling the laptop to fix the DC power pin, & forgot to reconnect it back. You will need to partially disassemble the laptop again & reconnect the touchpad to the motherboard.
FN + F9 should enable / disable the touchpad
goto control panel - mouse - and see if you can change disable/enable touch pad from there
Otherwise post back what windows version you have
Touchpads
you can enable and disable the touchpads
Touchpad: - to enable or disable a touch pad/pointing device
from the Start Menu > control panel > Change to classic view - {on left hand menu} click on the mouse icon
Mouse Properties dialog box, click "Device Settings tab"
select the device
click to Enable or Disable
OR
You may need to enable in the bios/setup menu - as the PC boots - you should get a message on how to get into the bios/setup - usually using F2 or DEL Key or F10
see if touch pad needs to be enabled there
OR
one of the F keys may disable/enable - depends on the model of the Laptop - toshiba sometime use FN+F9 key
You probably pressed fn + F7 by mistake when you were switching to the projector (fn+F5 to change monitor)....fn+F7 disables the touchpad on Acer laptops.
Press fn+F7 again. Betcha that fixes it. If not, let me know and I can help you with troubleshooting :)
You might have inadvertedly disabled the touchpad.
1. Press Fn + F9 to enable the touchpad.
This key combination acts as a switch, enabling or disabling the touchpad: press once to enable (if it is disabled), then press again to disable.
2. If the touchpad still doesn't respond, check the settings in the mouse control utility.
Click on the touchpad icon on the right side of the task bar if you see one or click Start button/Settings/Control Panel, select the Mouse icon and Press Enter.
Change the settings if necessary.
1 drivers got messed and need to be reinstalled 2 touchpad failed 3 touchpad was switch off by mistake (some laptops have really tiny switches for the touchpad and wireless)
if yours is like mine, ive heard this problem more than once... look just above the touchpad and there should be a small button just under the spacebar. make sure though that the lights above it are white instead of orange.
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