Why won't it scroll?

hi there.
this is all i could find.
Why my TouchPad is not working in laptop Acer? Enable/disable your touchpad - Many systems allow you to turn the touchpad On or Off by pressing the FN and F7 keys at the same time. ... Reinstall touchpad drivers - Missing or incorrect drivers may cause your touchpad to not work properly. Check in device manager to make sure your touchpad is reporting properly.27 Oct 2014

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Acer Aspire Notebook PC Touchpad won scroll Google Search

you might have to reset it
Most modern laptops with touchpads offer vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling or both. These features are located along the right-hand and bottom edges of the touchpad, respectively, and are activated when you swipe your finger along the touchpad edge. Scrolling functionality is nearly always enabled by default, but some users find the feature an annoyance and elect to turn it off. In most cases you can simply turn the feature back on using the Windows Control Panel.

Click the Windows Start button, select "Settings," and then click "Control Panel." Double-click the icon labeled "Mouse." Select the Touchpad properties tab. The labeling of this tab varies, depending on your computer manufacturer, operating system version and the device drivers installed on your machine. Common labels include "Touch Pad," "Device Settings" and "Dell Touchpad." If you do not see this option, you may not be able to turn on scrolling for your laptop; skip the remaining steps and refer to the "Warnings" section below. Click the "Settings" button within the Touchpad Properties menu and look for the section labeled "Scrolling Settings" or similar. Enable scrolling within this section and define other scroll settings, such as scroll zone width and scrolling speed. Click "OK" to confirm your changes, and then close the Control Panel windows opened in the previous steps. The scrollbar on your laptop is now enabled.
Scroll Is Not Working With Windows 7 b> Certain computer touchpads have a vertical section on the pad itself that is used to scroll through the page or program window that you are currently viewing on your computer. If the scroll functionality suddenly stops working but the actual touchpad is still fine, this means that the part of the software for the device that controls the ability to use the scroll has been disabled. You can enable it again in the Control Panel.
Click "Start." Click "Control Panel." Click "Mouse." Select the "Enable Scroll" option (or whatever similarly named option is available on your specific model of laptop computer). Click "Apply." The scroll bar on your touchpad will now work again.

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To access Mouse Properties, select Start - Control Panel - Hardware and Sound -Mouse.

Use Mouse Properties in Windows to customize settings for pointing devices, such as button configuration, click speed, and pointer options.

Open the touchpad software, ASUS Smart Gesture, adjust sensitivity. Asua support : http://support.asus.com/Troubleshooting/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Q500A&p=3&s=450&os=&hashedid=n/a&no=1018

Hello,
If you're using windows XP on your laptop, please try the link below
Driver for Touchpad
If the above link won't work please try the other one below
Driver for Touchpad
Thanks, hope this works!

reinstall the mouse its your virtual scrolling getting auto disabled dunno why but some sites disable it ???? for me its utube i have to reinstall like once a week lol so reinstall then restart and voila

Hi,

The notebook model you have is shipped with the Synaptics touchpad driver. Please follow the below steps to enable scrolling features:

1. Open Control panel -> click on Mouse . It will display Mouse Properties dialog box.
2. Under Mouse properties Window click the Device Settings tab
3. Click on Device Settings -> Settings button. This will display the Properties for Synaptics TouchPad on PS/2 port.

4. Follow the steps below to enable the Tapping Feature :

Highlight Tapping in the Left hand side , and Check the Enable tapping in the Right hand box .

5. Follow the steps below to enable Scroll feature:

Highlight Virtual Scrolling in the Left hand side and Check both the boxes in the right hand side.
6. Click OK .
Alternatively you can anble scrolling by reinstalling touchpad driver.

Touchpad driver for Vista:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39501-40000/sp39534.exe

Touchpad driver for Windows 7:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp44501-45000/sp44940.exe

i did a system restore to take the laptop back to how it was before some automatic updates had taken place and now its working again.
ok, not the best solution i know, but at least its resolved the problem for now.
thank you.
kind regards
jackie

Hi,

Just goto dell touchpad (the one that blinks in the task bar) and change the setting accordingly. Increase the scroll sensitivity, and it works like a charm.

Regards,
Kiran
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Seems like the synaptic touch pad has lost its configuration or got a little whacky.
Go to the control panel, and find the program for the touch pad.
There, try to redefine the areas for the scroll bar action.