Laptop Question

Simon_Brown_2 · 1 December 2018 at 6:59PM

Hello,

My laptop uses Windows 8.
It has the option of using a 'mouse-pad' (if that's the correct term) or touching the screen.

When I visit a website using my laptop (Google Chrome), the mouse pad moves the cursor around the screen. But not all of the times does a click on this mouse pad register with the website. For example, sometimes moving the cursor over a 'box' on the screen and clicking will not tick the box, but it may untick the box. Or clicking on the mouse pad may close a drop-down menu on the screen, but not open it.

Similarly, the 'scroll-bar' at the side of websites sometimes responds to me pressing the mouse-pad to move the screen up or down. But sometimes it does not.

Usually, touching the screen will perform the action, that the mouse -pad click does not.
However, I don't really like touching the laptop screen, as it harder to be accurate with smaller boxes etc on screen.

And actually, when I touch the screen, the cursor arrow disappears, so I cannot move it around using my finger - only the mouse-pad can move the arrow.

Does anyone have any idea why laptop is like this?

Thanks.