Left touchpad button stopped working, Aspire 5500

There are buttons and key combintions on laptops to enable and disable the touchpad.this depends on each models.in general, it is the Fn+F7 key

make sure touch pad is enabled (find the button on top most keys - may be f6 or f7 has a picture of pad and a finger) enable it by pressing and holding Fn and f6 or f7 .
give a try - if does not work then check device manager for drivers of touchpad

Hello,

Sometimes it differs but you can try pressing FN and F7 together on your keyboard to see if that will enable the touchpad again.FN should be next to your left-ctrl on your laptop keyboard.

On other Acers, there's either a seperate button to enable the touchpad or a different Function key. See on your keyboard the function keys and choose the one that looks like a tochpad, with a pointing hand. Sometimes the icon on the key just looks like a mini-touch-pad.

Hi,

You may have accidentally turned off the touchpad. To re-enable it just hold down Fn and hit the F7 key to re-enable it.



Regards.

It seems to me the drivers for your mousepad may be out dated go to hardware manager and update drivers

if you need help doing this just ask

Thanks
Cbz123

I just fixed this problem...the fn & f7 didnt work... at the top of computer where you turn the machine off and on - there is a button to the left. Press this button [not the on/off btn] and it should work.

There are free software programs out there to disable touchpads when typing for example
When I had a laptop I used a free program called 'touchfreeze'
Worked well for me

http://touchfreeze.net/

Thanks. The Fn F7 idea did not work, the Enable/Disable toggle in Control Panel made no difference BUT the simple pressing of the TINY finger pointing next to the power button DID work. Duh!

Look at your Function keys (F1-F12). There should be a icon of a touchpad or something similar on one of the keys. Most likely it is F7.

If you can find it, press the Function button (FN, next to CTRL) and F7 (or whatever key designates the touchpad), and see if this enables it.

If not, go to your control panel and click mouse properties. THere may be a tab for the touchpad where you can enable/disable it.

On my acer it is the fn and f7 button pushed together.. that turns the touchpad on and off