I have an Acer, Aspire E11. The mouse keeps freezing. I have to keep hitting fn F7 twice to get it to work again. It is getting so bad, I'm starting to regret getting this computer. Is there anything that I can do to fix this?

Hello,

Thank you for using fixya. My name is Carlo.

There are two ways that you can do to turn off/on the touch pad in your acer aspire.

1. Press FN + F7. It will turn off the touchpad and will turn on once you press the same buttons again.

2. If the buttons do not work. You can do this:

1. Go to control panel>hardware and devices>Devices and Printers>Mouse
2. CLick on the last setting on the right.
3. Click on Disable in the Mouse Properties.
5. Click OK.

Just go to the same area when you want to enable your touchpad again.

I hope this helps.

Carlo
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reset by going to start and tiping in word mouse it will bring your mouse settings up and change settings from there you might have to restart system first so mouse will move.

Try hitting just the F7 key only. I had an issue with an HP Mini laptop and was hitting the Fn and the F7 key and found the key combination didn't work when I pressed both Fn and F7. But it did work when I just hit the F7 key (even though "F7" was written in blue, the same color as the Fn key, it turned out that I didn't need to press Fn and the key for F7 to gain the functionality of the F7 key. HP tech support informed me of that when I called them due to a similar issue I experienced a while back).

Try to hit F7 alone. That may help you out.

As for the touchpad, it should be enabled. (Unless you're using a different pointing device and want it disabled). There are options where you can turn off the touchpad on start up, but I would advise against doing so.

Hi there, Press FN+F7 key and use your mouse pad. Right now its on disable mode. Thanks.

Hit the FN key and f7 again to reactive the laptop mouse.

Is there a function key on the laptop? (Fn usually blue ink) is there a key with the symbol that looks like mouse pad. Hold down Fn then the mouse pad key and that should enable the mouse pad.

As you have suggested the F7 key is the one for the mouse pad, and hasn't made any difference, have you somehow corrupted the drivers. You can download them from the acer website.

when did it last work, you cloud try a system restore. Remember to press Fn + F7 again and give it a moment to enable( just in case the last time you tried it, you turned the hardware off despite it's lack of functionality)

Buy a USB Mouse :)

Fn + F7 (or thereabouts)
Usually enables/diables built-in trackpad for those who use an external mouse but keep accidentally moving the built-in trackpad while typing.

On touchpads if you touch the pad twice in quick succession it acts as a click and the cursor will move to the mouse pointer location. In mouse settings disable "tapping"

I'm assuming you are talking about the touchpad - they may have hit one of your hotkeys - fn+f7 will toggle the touchpad on and off - on my aspire 3050 anyway - try fn+f1 to get a list of the hotkeys and what they do to make sure