My MacBook Pro is unresponsive. I can move the cursor around, but when nothing happens when I tap the touch pad.

if this has been happening since you bought the laptop. I'd take it to the person who sold it to you

Its possible that "tapping" is off, as yo udont adentify a model or anything its hard to be accurate, normally goto mouse settings , find synaptic touchad tab and then check the detailed settings, you will find a tapping feature.

This has happened to me and it took me hours to figure it out. I hope yours is the same problem...
Make sure you dont have your touch pad set to off. On my ASUS It is F9 on my keyboard. the key shows an icon of the touch pad with a slash (/) through it. If you do not see this on your keyboard try looking in control panel and see if there is a setting in there. Good Luck. Please let me know if this worked.
Geraldine

You need to disable the tapping while typing option in your touch pad because your thumb sometimes touches the touch pad which is causing it to move around to another part of the sentence.

I was experiencing this problem before, and I figured out I was tapping the touch pad with the palm of my hand. I had to download a driver for my touch pad and adjust the sensitivity of the touch pad.

Down on your task bar on the right there is a little screen that shows a green circle when you move your cursor. This is the Synaptics Pointing Device. Place your cursor over that and click your left 'mouse' button (just below where you tap). You will see 'tap to click'. If you click on that it will change it to your 'tap' function. That should solve your problem, hopefully. Hope this helps.

Which mouse you using, If you using Logitech Mouse install CD of it & configure mouse settings.

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If you reffering about touch pad of laptop, Check its setting & configure it & your problem will fix.If problem still alive, Give laptop for servicing.

Thanks.

I faced the same problem with my laptop and the fault was with the power adapter. I noticed that the cursor moved randomally only when the power adapter was plugged in. I got the adapter replaced and it is working fine since then.

I think thats the best answer I have heard so far the control F9..it actually worked..Thank you very much!

This is the first msg I have typed since I have had the computer where the cursor hasnt jumped..

I tell ya these forums are the best

Thanks again

MIkey J