How to Troubleshoot My Laptop Touchpad. Laptop touchpads offer an alternative to an external mouse. Even when they work as designed, touchpads can cause your cursor to jump around unexpectedly or bring up unwanted menus and options due to high sensitivity and multitouch gestures. To troubleshoot erratic cursor behavior or an unresponsive touchpad, check a few settings in Windows and, if necessary, clean the pad itself. If your touchpad wont work at all, plug in a USB mouse to use temporarily. Most touchpads interpret a quick tap as a click. Photokanoki. StockGetty Images. Enable Your Touchpad. If your touchpad suddenly stops working, you might have accidentally turned it off with your laptops function keys. Hold Fn and press the F key with an icon that resembles a touchpad. The switch key varies from laptop to laptop, and some laptops dont have a switch at all. If you dont have a switch or it doesnt help, confirm the touchpad is enabled On Windows 8 or 8. Windows W, type Mouse without quotes in the search bar and click Mouse in the results. Open the Device Settings tab and check whether the touchpad has Yes in the Enabled column. If not, select it and click Enable. If you dont have a Device Settings tab, look for another touchpad related tab name, such as Cypress Track. Pad, which appears on many Dell laptops. F00_compatibility.jpg' alt='Cypress Drivers Touchpad' title='Cypress Drivers Touchpad' />Not all models have an Enable option in the settings. Turn Off Gestures. Touchpads support gestures, such as swiping down the right side of the pad to scroll the active window. Some touchpads also recognize smartphone like gestures such as pinch zoom. If you trigger these gestures by accident, it can seem like your computer is behaving incorrectly. To disable gestures and check if the problem goes away, open the touchpad settings from the Device Settings or Cypress Track. Pad tab of the Mouse control panel and uncheck any gestures you dont use. Fear and Loathing in Windows 8 with the Acer ICONIA 6120 DualScreen Touchbook. Oct 1 2011. DriverPack Solution. Lower Touchpad Sensitivity. If the touchpads sensitivity is set too high, your palm can cause the cursor to move or click while you type on the keyboard. In the touchpad settings, lower the sensitivity so the pad wont activate without a heavier touch. You might need to open the Pointing section to find the sensitivity option. Some touchpad models also have a palm check feature that helps prevent erroneous movements. Clean the Touchpad. Dirt on a touchpad makes it more difficult for the hardware to detect your fingertip correctly and can cause random cursor movements. Wipe the touchpad with a lint free cloth to remove loose dirt or dust. Pack de Drivers que biene de la mano de SamLab y disponibles para arquitecturas de 32 bits y 64 bits de sistemas operativos Windows desde Windows 2000 a Windows. Name. The company is usually referred to as Asus or Hushu in Chinese traditional Chinese simplified Chinese, literally Eminence ofby the. F00_compatibility3.jpg' alt='Cypress Drivers Touchpad Asus' title='Cypress Drivers Touchpad Asus' />To clean stuck on dirt, moisten the cloth with water. Do not pour any liquid directly onto the touchpad. Usb To Serial Ser2pl.Sys. Do not let any liquid pool on the touchpad. Prevent any liquid from slipping down into the seams around the touchpad. The cloth must not be damp enough to allow any excess liquid to free itself when squeezed. Update Touchpad Drivers. Old or incorrect drivers might contain bugs that cause erratic movement or break particular touchpad features such as gestures. Check your laptop manufacturers support website for drivers you can download and install. If the site doesnt have touchpad drivers or installing them doesnt help, check the touchpad manufacturers website instead. Touchpad manufacturer sites often have generic drivers that are newer than those from laptop manufacturers, but generic drivers might not work with some features on your computer, so only try them as a last resort. HP Touch. Pad Needs 6 to 8 Weeks for Additional Shipments. Hewlett Packard will apparently need close to two months to start fulfilling backorders for the temporarily revived Touch. Pad tablet. It will take 6 8 weeks to build enough HP Touch. Pads to meet our current commitments, during which time your order will then ship from this stock with free ground shipping, read an email sent to customers and reprinted in a Sept. Precentral. net blog. You will receive a shipping notification with a tracking number once your order has shipped. That would place the new Touch. Pads in consumers hands sometime in either late October or early November. The reduced price devices are not returnable, according to the email. HP originally acquired web. OS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2. The manufacturer originally had big plans for loading the operating system onto a variety of devices, including tablets, smartphones, desktops and laptops. However, sales of its Touch. Pad proved anemic, and HP made the decision to end the tablets life after a mere six weeks on the market. In order to clear out inventory, the manufacturer sliced the starting price to 9. In the wake of that, HP made the decision to revive the line for a limited time. In addition, HP plans on dividing its web. OS arm into two separate units reporting to different areas of the company, according to two leaked memos that have made their way onto the Web. The web. OS software assets will find their way into the arms, however welcoming, of its Office of Strategy and Technology. The other parts of the web. OS corporate infrastructure, presumably including its hardware interests, will continue as part of the Personal Systems Group, which manufactures HPs PCs, and which will presumably be spun off into its own entity under the terms of the companys new strategy. We have decided that well be most effective in these efforts by having the teams in web. OS software engineering, worldwide developer relations and web. OS software product marketing join the Office of Strategy and Technology, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HPs Personal Systems Group, wrote in an email circulated to the web. OS developer team and also leaked onto Precentral. The remainder of the web. OS team, under Stephen De. Witt, will continue to report into PSG. According to at least one analyst, flooding the market with additional Touch. Pad devices could have significant benefits for HP going forward. A larger installed base of Touch. Pad and web. OS devices should increase the value of web. 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