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Problem with Netbook touchpad not working

ses6jwg
ses6jwg Posts: 5,381 Forumite
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Hello all.

Had a new netbook for a few weeks.

Everything has been fine, except tonight the touchpad randomly decided to stop working without warning.

It is a Packard Bell DOTMA netbook running Windows Vista Home Premium with all updates installed.

The touchpad is a Synaptics Touchpad V7.2 on PS2/1

I tried updating the drivers, no joy.

I went into device manager and uninstalled the device, restarted the computer, it re-installed and then worked, restarted the computer again and it stopped working!


I'm guessing there is a driver/ software conflict somewhere?

Any ideas?

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  • ses6jwg
    ses6jwg Posts: 5,381 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lol i pressed fn f7 by accident trying to mute the sound and it locked the touchpad... doh
  • yeah its just shortcuts to cut it down, there's also aother shortcuts to put the brightness down and up, to send your screen externally and to switch off your wireless ect..lots to explore with fn keys these days
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