Give us a litte hint on what brand and model laptop you have???

Under mouse options is your touch pad enabled? Do you have a TouchPad tab on Mouse from the control panel?

If you don't, you might have accidently removed the program or the driver needs to be updated or re-installed. There should be a system disk with your notebook. Wait until you are well into your desktop before inserting the disk, otherwise if you insert the disk at start-up you might erase your hard drive. Your drivers will be on that disk, otherwise you can try to update your driver through the Device Manager, which I've had no results from without the disk.

Your touchpad just might be wearing out. Just like the touchpads in some elevators, the floor you want will never light up.

I like using a mouse with my notebook. It is not as convienient or compact, but it is much, much, more accurate. They have all kinds of gizmos and mini mice, for notebooks that travel, on the market. If your notebook stays in one locale, any USB mouse will work provided you have enough harddrive space and RAM to support the model of your choice.

Good luck,

marf

I found this in Help and Support.
In the Control Panel open Accessibility Options Icon and click Mouse Tab and than Setting.

To move the mouse pointer by using MouseKeys
If you have not already done so, turn on MouseKeys.
To turn on MouseKeys, open Accessibility Options, click the Mouse tab, and then select the Use MouseKeys check box.

Use the buttons on the numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer. If MouseKeys doesn't function, press NUM LOCK, and then try MouseKeys again.
To move the pointer horizontally or vertically, press the arrow keys on your numeric keypad.
To move the pointer diagonally, press HOME, END, PAGE UP, or PAGE DOWN on your numeric keypad.
Notes

To open Accessibility Options, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Accessibility Options.
To specify whether NUM LOCK must be on or off for MouseKeys to function, on the Mouse tab, click Settings, and then for Use MouseKeys when NumLock is, click On or Off.
To change the pointer speed and acceleration when using MouseKeys, on the Mouse tab, click Settings, and then move the sliders to adjust the pointer speed and acceleration.
To temporarily increase or decrease the pointer speed, on the Mouse tab, click Settings, and then select the Hold down Ctrl to speed up and Shift to slow down check box.

cg

cboy, that was a lot work to uncover the mouse keys.

I have tried the mouse key option out of curiosity, and my experience was awful. You permanently lose your arrow keys, even on a plug-in computer keyboard. Try editing your typing without them. The accuracy is next to non-existent, and it is very clunky...everything has to be reached with right angles. Frustrating as all get out.

If the touchpad has bit the dust, which they often do. A USB trackball or mouse is a better solution.

I could be wrong. My notebook is 3 years old. Maybe the mouse keys are better than they used to be.

I have to credit cboy for finding them. Even after I found them and turned them on, I couldn't remember where I found them and subsequently I couldn't switch them off for days. That took an effort.

marf

I know exactly what you were referring to Chris, my friend just had the same problem. She clicked something, and suddenly, the touch-click was gone. It has nothing to do with the keypad dying, it is infact a setting.

In order to fix this, you go to control panel > mouse
the last tab is called "Device Settings" click it and make sure you have "static tray icon in taskbar" selected.
(You can always remove this later.)

Apply the changes and click the red coloured icon in your task bar. An option will be available called "Tap to click." Clicking it will enable you to tap with your mouse pad instead of the keys!

Hope this helps you out, I know it helped my friend.

Mary

I am having a problem - my left click button does not work on my laptop. My scroll pad and right click work just fine. And I can left click w/ my mouse. I also can not click by tapping on the scroll pad.

It started once I installed software for my Microsoft Wireless Keyboard & Mouse.

I can not figure out what is going on  any ideas?

DonÂt really want to uninstall the software for the keyboard/mouse (if I can help it)

Thanks!!

im having a problem:when i put my arrow above a item(program , pasts ,ect)my touchpad and my mouse assumes that as one click and when i do another(past 5 or 7 sec)my computer assumes as 1 click doing a double click
what is happening?its a system problem ,a hardare problem?

P.S:ive scam my pc over 10 times with different ati- virus(avg,avast,kaspersky and panda) the only thing that catched my attention was this:

"C:\Users\lucas\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\erkahmye.default\cookies.sqlite:\doubleclick.net.bf396750";"Found Tracking cookie.Doubleclick"

please help

I had this problem for many weeks and I even thought it was a hardware problem because I couldn't find information about this problem.

Thank you very much ComputerGirl!!

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