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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
I have a Toshiba Satellite A100-033 running Vista Home Basic. I mostly use
the laptop as a desk top replacement and, as I dislike using the touchpad, I disabled it, and instead I use an external mouse via one of the USB ports. On my laptop the standard way to disable the touchpad is by simultaneously pressing the Fn key and the F9 key. However, to be honest, I am not sure whether I did in fact disable the touchpad by this means, or whether I used some other means (if it was by some other means then I have forgotten what this was). Recently I wished to re-enable the touchpad so that I could use the laptop outside the house without having to take my external mouse with me as well. However, I found that pressing Fn + F9 did not re-enable the touchpad and I now can't use the touchpad at all. If I go into mouse properties (in control panel), this tells me that my synaptics pointing device is enabled. If I go into device manager and look at "mice", I am told that my touchpad is working properly. All this makes me suspect that the problem is not a hardware fault but that I have altered some setting, with the result that my touchpad is permanently disabled until I change the setting back to its original state. Any suggestions? |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
Something to try:
On the Start - Run line, type SERVICES.MSC and hit enter. scroll down and look for touch pad, If it is on the list, right click it and set it to automatic. "rh0000" wrote in message ... I have a Toshiba Satellite A100-033 running Vista Home Basic. I mostly use the laptop as a desk top replacement and, as I dislike using the touchpad, I disabled it, and instead I use an external mouse via one of the USB ports. On my laptop the standard way to disable the touchpad is by simultaneously pressing the Fn key and the F9 key. However, to be honest, I am not sure whether I did in fact disable the touchpad by this means, or whether I used some other means (if it was by some other means then I have forgotten what this was). Recently I wished to re-enable the touchpad so that I could use the laptop outside the house without having to take my external mouse with me as well. However, I found that pressing Fn + F9 did not re-enable the touchpad and I now can't use the touchpad at all. If I go into mouse properties (in control panel), this tells me that my synaptics pointing device is enabled. If I go into device manager and look at "mice", I am told that my touchpad is working properly. All this makes me suspect that the problem is not a hardware fault but that I have altered some setting, with the result that my touchpad is permanently disabled until I change the setting back to its original state. Any suggestions? |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I couldn't find any occurrence of a
touchpad under services.msc, so your suggestion didn't work. But I do have a feeling that originally I may have disabled the touchpad by changing some setting or other, so I feel your suggestion was on the right lines, even though it didn't do the trick. Thanks once again for giving my problem some thought. "JerryM" wrote: Something to try: On the Start - Run line, type SERVICES.MSC and hit enter. scroll down and look for touch pad, If it is on the list, right click it and set it to automatic. "rh0000" wrote in message ... I have a Toshiba Satellite A100-033 running Vista Home Basic. I mostly use the laptop as a desk top replacement and, as I dislike using the touchpad, I disabled it, and instead I use an external mouse via one of the USB ports. On my laptop the standard way to disable the touchpad is by simultaneously pressing the Fn key and the F9 key. However, to be honest, I am not sure whether I did in fact disable the touchpad by this means, or whether I used some other means (if it was by some other means then I have forgotten what this was). Recently I wished to re-enable the touchpad so that I could use the laptop outside the house without having to take my external mouse with me as well. However, I found that pressing Fn + F9 did not re-enable the touchpad and I now can't use the touchpad at all. If I go into mouse properties (in control panel), this tells me that my synaptics pointing device is enabled. If I go into device manager and look at "mice", I am told that my touchpad is working properly. All this makes me suspect that the problem is not a hardware fault but that I have altered some setting, with the result that my touchpad is permanently disabled until I change the setting back to its original state. Any suggestions? |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
Another thing to try is to Restore to an earlier date, if you have one old
enough. Good Luck Jerry "rh0000" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I couldn't find any occurrence of a touchpad under services.msc, so your suggestion didn't work. But I do have a feeling that originally I may have disabled the touchpad by changing some setting or other, so I feel your suggestion was on the right lines, even though it didn't do the trick. Thanks once again for giving my problem some thought. Snip |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
The last thing I can think of is to type SFC /SCANNOW on the start -run
line. This will correct or replace any missing or corrupt files on your operating system. Jerry "JerryM" wrote in message ... Another thing to try is to Restore to an earlier date, if you have one old enough. Good Luck Jerry "rh0000" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I couldn't find any occurrence of a touchpad under services.msc, so your suggestion didn't work. But I do have a feeling that originally I may have disabled the touchpad by changing some setting or other, so I feel your suggestion was on the right lines, even though it didn't do the trick. Thanks once again for giving my problem some thought. Snip |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
I suggest typing "cmd" first to open a command window and running sfc there.
Just a suggestion. "JerryM" wrote in message ... The last thing I can think of is to type SFC /SCANNOW on the start -run line. This will correct or replace any missing or corrupt files on your operating system. Jerry "JerryM" wrote in message ... Another thing to try is to Restore to an earlier date, if you have one old enough. Good Luck Jerry "rh0000" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I couldn't find any occurrence of a touchpad under services.msc, so your suggestion didn't work. But I do have a feeling that originally I may have disabled the touchpad by changing some setting or other, so I feel your suggestion was on the right lines, even though it didn't do the trick. Thanks once again for giving my problem some thought. Snip |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
Thanks for your further thoughts. I don't have a restore point going back far
enough. I've tried to run SFC /SCANNOW. However, if I have no space between SFC and the slash, I'm told that Windows can't find the file. If there is a space (as you have in your suggestion), then a black "DOS" type box flashes onto my desktop for a brief moment, but too brief for me to be able to say what it says. So that's drawn a blank as well. But again, my thanks for your efforts. "JerryM" wrote: The last thing I can think of is to type SFC /SCANNOW on the start -run line. This will correct or replace any missing or corrupt files on your operating system. Jerry "JerryM" wrote in message ... Another thing to try is to Restore to an earlier date, if you have one old enough. Good Luck Jerry "rh0000" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I couldn't find any occurrence of a touchpad under services.msc, so your suggestion didn't work. But I do have a feeling that originally I may have disabled the touchpad by changing some setting or other, so I feel your suggestion was on the right lines, even though it didn't do the trick. Thanks once again for giving my problem some thought. Snip |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
An easy fix: simultaneously hit your FN & F9 keys and the Keypad icon will drop down from the top of your screen. It will now give you the option to ENABLE/DISABLE the touchpad. Try the tab key to navigate between the two options. Good luck. -- bowzer |
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I disabled my laptop touchpad and now can't enable it
An easy fix: simultaneously hit your FN & F9 keys and the Keypad icon will drop down from the top of your screen. It will now give you the option to ENABLE/DISABLE the touchpad. Try the tab key to navigate between the two options. Good luck. -- bowzer |