Comments on: When I use my touch pad to move the cursor, once in a while it will send me to the previous or next page

By: don

don — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:35:56 +0000

mistakenly disabled mouse functions on laptop, now mouse won’t work, HOW to get it back? dell 1526

By: jong

jong — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:02:24 +0000

this is how you do it.. I’ve just finished exploring my unit ACER 4730Z on how to disable this touchpad.. Just look in your keypads in your laptop, find the image ” a finger pointing a box”, with the combination of “Fn” button. Problem solved, touchpad disabled..

Good luck!
from Philippines here..

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:18:53 +0000

The touch pad will move the cursor around and.move the page up and down, but does not enter anything. I have a wireless mouse and that does work fine, but I cannot use the computer without the mouse as I did before.

By: Dee--

Dee-- — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:23:17 +0000

i have now been noticing the same problem from a long time. and got an answer. go to mouse settings and then just set your mouse sensitivity really low.
>go to control pannel
>go to mouse
> tapping (top left corner)
>take off everything
> go to sensitivity (bottom)
> make it as low as possible
DONE DEAL!!

By: dhiren

dhiren — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:54:00 +0000

hi,
the cursor on my laptop suddenly stopped moving and if it moves it moves very slowy and with two fingers and after pressing hard .i am unable to fix it.kindly help me

By: Laptop Freak

Laptop Freak — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:36:31 +0000

Scott,
From your description it’s hard to tell if the problem is software or hardware related. Try reinstalling Windows and see if the problem is gone. If it’s still there, it’s a hardware related problem. Most likely the trackpad itself is going bad. I’ve published your question and some troubleshooting tips here: Laptop trackpad problem.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:38:23 +0000

We have an Inspiron 1420 laptop with a normal trackpad. Recently we’ve had a problem where the pointer will not go down no matter how much you drag your finger down on the pad. The pointer will still go left and right, but not up or down. It usually lasts a minute or so and then it stops, but I’m worried that if we don’t find a solution then it will get worse. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thanks a lot!
~Scott

By: Anamika

Anamika — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:35:29 +0000

My Dell laptop has been acting very weird for last few days and has now become even worse. When I start my laptop it takes me to diagnostic mode and get stuck until I press and function keys which then takes me to pre-boot assessment 3017 and runs some test and then takes me to a page where there are couple of colored lines and asks for manual input for the question are these lines visible [Y/N] at this point I cannot enter any input as my keyboard is not recognized. Then I randomly click some function keys which then gives me a message that user complained that lines not visible and then takes me to BIOS settings where again none of the keys work to let me browse. I then again hit some random function keys and if I am lucky it lets be login. When I finally login I can just type maximum a word or two and then funny series of characters come up on their own.. it’s a fixed series which keep repeating ‘fsda/-;’ it then opens my volume control box where the speaker sign is replaced with some smiley then opens real player and then shuts down my PC. My Keyboard gets fully disabled during this process except for the function keypad. The description might suggest that it is a hardware problem but since the fn keypad works it makes me believe it’s more of a virus problem than hardware problem. If anyone can help me with this I shall be really thankful as I am in need of some urgent help.

Hoping for some help soon.

Many thanks in advance.

Thanks

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:46:25 +0000

To turn off the touchpad, either right click on the touchpad symbol in the system tray, and choose “Touchpad off” or use FN+F9 key combination.
If you want to just change it… it might have to do with this…

*screenshot link below*

Mouse > Advanced

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3892/rfdsaj6.gif

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:20:49 +0000

I have a Toshiba Notebook, and I want to know how to turn off the touchpad.

When I am typing on Word, it constantly “clicks” somewhere else on the page, and my whole typing sequence is messed up.

It’s very frustrating to have to removing the cursor and placing it to where I left off.

Please help.