How do you highlight with a touchpad

it depends what brand product you are using. for most touchpads you just drag two fingers next to eachother on the touchpad and it will scroll up and down. for some others you just drag one finger along the edge of the touchpad

Locate the function key (F1 to F12) that has the touchpad sign. This is often a rectangle with two smaller rectangles below it representing the touchpad and its two buttons.
Press FN + The touchpad button
If this doesn\'t work, then you need to do the following:

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.





If no go, then update your touchpad driver by going to Computer (right click), Manage > device manager.

Look for the touchpad driver and update. If you want to avoid these kinds of problem in the future, then install radarsync to automate the updating mechanism of your computer. It\'s automatic and you don\'t need to do anything.

I hope this helps!

Carlo

Does the laptop have a touchpad (usually centered on the keyboard below the space bar) with two buttons above it? Then drag your finger across the selection to highlight it. Then click the right button.

It may take some practice. I usually end up getting a finger to register as moving to a new point on the screen when I try to move up to the buttons.

If you are still more comfortable with a mouse, get a USB corded or wireless mouse. Connect the mouse to a free port and use as you normally do. (Wireless mice can be a little tricky when the batteries run down or the receiver and mouse lose their connection.) If you have limited ports, a USB hub will usually be fine for connecting a mouse.

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells
(Note: some older laptops need the touchpad disabled to avoid confusion. With Windows, Start > Control Panel > Hardware > Device Manager)

I had same problem... solution is to download latest Touchpad Driver from Synaptics.

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

Try going to the control panel > mouse settings, Open the mouse settings and at the top of the page, there should be a tab for device settings. Click on this tab, It should bring up the touchpad device, highlight it and click on the settings button. When the settings window shows, scroll down to tapping, highlight tapping and make sure that the box is checked for tapping enabled. While you are in there go through all the other settings.

I had the same problem. After hours on the phone, I finally got them to replace the touchpad and, so far, so good.

• 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).

Function F7 to disable the touch pad and the same buttons to enable it. The function key is the button with Fn. on it.

Good luck and don't forget to rate my answer.

It may be set to be over-sensitive to touch - Open Mouse settings in your control panel and look for touchpad sensitivity settings.

If that doesnt help you probably have a sticky mouse button and the touchpad will need to be replaced.

What brand and model laptop do you have?? Some are prone to sticky buttons.