touchpad problem

sandy2_2

I have an Acer Aspire5730Z. It has been working fine until the other dat when the left hand button decided to stop working as the primary button. I changed the configuration via control panel so that the right hand button became the primary button and the left hand button now works as the secondary button, but it just feels so awkward. Apart from usinng a USB mouse is there anything else i can do to make the original configuration work once more?
Sandy

jinnywren

I'm hoping someone can answer this for me too..

ukmarine1

could be a driver issue try uninstalling and re installing the driver?

sandy2_2

ukmarine1 wrote: »

could be a driver issue try uninstalling and re installing the driver?

Thanks, but how do I do this?
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davb

You can download the latest driver from Acer. Select Notebook >Aspire >Aspire 5730Z >Your OS, then the Synaptics Touchpad Driver

sandy2_2

Thanks Davb, Sorry to be a bit dim with this, but I´ve downloaded it, but can find anywhere that says install or run...help please. It´s sitting in the downloaded box (it´s a zipped file bu the way, if that makes a difference), when I click on it, it shows Vista in the headings, but I have XP....help please if you can
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davb

sandy2 wrote: »

Thanks Davb, Sorry to be a bit dim with this, but I´ve downloaded it, but can find anywhere that says install or run...help please. It´s sitting in the downloaded box (it´s a zipped file bu the way, if that makes a difference), when I click on it, it shows Vista in the headings, but I have XP....help please if you can
Sandy

It may be the same driver installer for XP and Vista, but just double check you did select XP - from the pulldown not the box, it is a bit confusing - try this direct link.
If it's a zipfile, you will need to extract the contents to a folder, then hopefully there will be a setup.exe file to run.

ukmarine1

u need win rar on your pc to open it if you have right click extract file to wherever you wish and click on the exe. file to install win rar is free do a google