#1 button under touchpad broken

Hi
One of the toggle switches using the FN key turns the touchpad on and off.
<Fn> + <F7> Touchpad toggle. Turns the built-in touchpad on
and off.
If you go here :-
Drivers and Manuals
and selecting your model from the selections offered ie "Notebook" then "Aspire" then "Aspire E1-571" you can find all the documentation, drivers, applications, BIOS etc for your machine.
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Assuming the touchpad is not broken, some of these options may help.

Most people whose touchpad doesn't work is simply because they disabled it by accident and don't know how to reenable it. Look along the top of the keyboard on the function keys (F1, F2, F3, etc) for a symbol that looks like a touchpad and press it. If that doesn't work, hold down the Fn button and press it.

Some HP laptops (like mine) actually has a little dip in the pad with a little light that displays the touchpad is disabled. Double tapping in that little "dip" will reenable the touchpad.

Press and hold the Fn key and then hit F3 key.
Press and hold the Fn key and then hit F6 key.
Install touchpad drivers from dell website.

Click the Windows "Start" button in the bottom-left corner of your desktop.

Scroll up and click "Control Panel."

Choose the "Mouse" icon or type "Mouse" in the field in the upper-right corner.

Click the "Enter" button and then click the "Mouse" link.

Press the "Hardware" tab or the tab to the right of it that specifies the type of touch pad you have.

If you are under the "Hardware" tab, highlight the touch pad in the list of devices and click the "Enable" button.

If you are under the touch pad tab, click the enable button.

Click the "Apply" button and then click the "OK" button

or

Locate the function key on your keyboard (F1 through F12) that has an icon of a touchpad. This is often a rectangle with two smaller rectangles below it, representing the touchpad and its two buttons.

Press and hold the "Fn" key, usually found in the lower left area of your keyboard.

Press the touchpad function key and then release both keys. If this does not enable your touchpad, try holding the "Fn" key down and pressing the touchpad function key twice in a row.

Shortcut Key Method

Press the Windows icon key on your keyboard and hold it down until the Start menu pops up. If your keyboard doesn't have a Windows icon, press "Ctrl-Esc" at the same time.

Use your arrow keys to locate the Control Panel and press "Enter."

Navigate to "Mouse" with your arrow keys and press "Enter" to open the mouse control dialog box.

Then, press "Alt-F" together to access the tabs at the top of this box.

Navigate using the arrow keys to "Device Settings" or "Touchpad" or the similar option on your system and press "Enter."

Press the "Tab" key until the "Enable" option or a check box next to it highlights and then press "Enter." Press "Tab" again until you are highlighting "OK," and press "Enter." Your touchpad will be re-enabled.

hope this helps

1. Locate the "function key" on your keyboard (F1 through F12) that has an icon of a touchpad. This is generally a rectangle with two smaller rectangles below it, representing the touchpad and its two buttons.
2. Press and hold the "FN" key, usually found in the lower left area of your keyboard.
3. Press the touchpad function key ("F#," with the "#" representing the number 1 through 12 that you located in step 1), and then release both keys. If this does not enable your touchpad, try holding the "FN" key down and pressing the "F#" key twice in a row.

If you mean the key is physically sticking, as in pressing down but not releasing,it is possible that the plastic spring or rubber stop under the key has broken.

You can remove the key cover and check if the plastic spring that the key attaches to is moveable and that the small rubber stop underneath is present. If the spring is broken, a replacement key can be got from ebay for a small cost. Check also that there is no dirt or sticky patches under the key, these should be removed using meths or a similar solvent.

If the key is not physically damaged, or there is no dirt etc underneath, there may be a problem with one of the traces on the ribbon cable to the motherboard, this will necessitate a new keyboard

I'm not sure what you mean by "broken". If Physically damaged, then I would be questioning the person who repaired it, as the touchpad issue scrolling points to hardware rather than software.

You could, in the meantime, visit the HP site and download the touchpad drivers for Windows 7 for this model (I cannot give you a direct link as there are 15 variants of your laptop on there)

What is the model of your fridge. Also you can try the other button and check if they repsonce and if any one does not react when it pressed.

Try pressing the holding in the Fn button and pressing F9

This should disable the touchpad, if it doesn't then you will need to disable it in mouse properties in your control panel.

• Press the Menu button in the centre of the touchpad, or alternatively press the Menu softkey (Figure 1).
• In the main menu, highlight the Settings icon (it looks like a cog and spanner). Press the OK button on the touchpad or Select softkey (Figure 2).
• Scroll down to highlight Display & light settings. Press Select or OK, or alternatively press number 3 on the numberpad (Figure 3).
• Highlight Display. Press Select or OK, or press number 1 on the numberpad (Figure 4).
• Highlight My theme. Press Select or OK, or press number 1 (Figure 5).
• Highlight Select theme. Press Select or OK, or press number 1 (Figure 6).

You are now presented with a gallery of themes. If you create your own or download others, they will be added to this gallery.

• Using the touchpad controls, scroll through the themes until you select the one you wish to install (Figure 7).
• To preview the theme full screen, press OK on the touchpad (Figure 8). Press Back to get to the gallery of themes again.
• When you've found the theme you want to install, press Save. You will be asked: 'Apply this theme for your phone now?' Press Yes or OK (Figure 9).
• A message will appear informing you that theme has been saved, and you will be returned to the theme gallery. Press Back to scroll back through the menus to see how the new theme has been applied (Figure 10), or press the Call end key to return to your new-look standby page (Figure 11).