Most laptops (if not all) come with a function key. It took me only a minute to diagnose what was wrong – why the touchpad on his laptop was not working. The repair center would have cost me half a day – I was on holiday – so I thought I would take a look at this myself. Why don’t you take it to the repair center tomorrow?”, he suggested.
Though I was happy to know that his computer skills had improved (he had managed to attach the mouse and get it to work – remember he simply didn’t know how to use a computer a few months back), I was feeling bad that the new laptop had a broken touchpad. He was now using the mouse that came free with the laptop. To cut the story short, my uncle complained the touchpad was completely unresponsive and had stopped working. “ Why? What’s wrong? And why do you use a mouse? The laptop has a touchpad”, I said. If you verify that the settings are all correct and it still doesn't work - you may have a hardware fault.On this trip, after the pleasantries, we started talking about the web and his computer and he exclaimed – “ the damn thing just doesn’t work without a mouse“. Once you find it, it's pretty self-evident how to set it.
Find the section for the touchpad and then you should have options to enable the touchpad, enable scrolling, set the scrolling region, etc. Usually this is a tab on the Mouse Properties (you can search for it in Control Panel - or click on Hardware and Sound and then on Mouse). If it is not working anywhere (and you've tried my suggestions above), in Control Panel, you need to find the dialogue that controls the touch pad.
Is it working in some programs and not others? From your question, I gather it's not working at all - correct? Some touch pads support two-finger scrolling - for that you use two fingers slightly separated anywhere on the touchpad and stroke in the direction you want to scroll. The exact method to check or enable this will depend on the exact model you have - but the principles are the same for all.įirst - how do you know it does NOT work now? Typically you stroke the far-right edge of the touchpad for vertical scrolling and the bottom edge for horizontal. I assume you are using Windows (even though you didn't say so) since you've tagged the questions with that OS.
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