Keyboards & Touchpads

[shackldfluffgrl]

The left mouse button below my laptop touch pad has stopped responding.  And so has the scroll option on the touch pad itself.  I tried to reinstall a driver but after it unzipped, nothing happened.  I restarted my laptop just to see if that'd get it to work and it didn't.  What should I do now?

[Jerry_Lippey]

Satellite P305D-S8829 

Open Device Manager (devmgmt.msc), expand Mice and other pointing devices, and see if you have an Alps or Synaptics touchpad there. If so, which one?

Double-click it and tell us what Device status says.  

[shackldfluffgrl]

All it says is Alps Pointing Device

And under the status it says the device is working properly.

[Jerry_Lippey]

Try reinstalling the driver.

   Alps Touch Pad Driver for Windows Vista

[shackldfluffgrl]

It didn't work.  The driver installed and I restarted but no luck.

[Jerry_Lippey]

The only thing I can think of now is to open Mouse in Control Panel and fool around with likely-looking settings.

[shackldfluffgrl]

And if it doesn't work I just have to settle? 

[Jerry_Lippey]

Other options are to plug in a real mouse (which I always use anyway) or restore the hard drive to its original factory-new state, which works when it's not a hardware malfunction.

[Egoetrexmeus]

Exactly the same problem on my A505-S6960 ( no left click, no scrolling).. I tried system restore, it did not help..I suspect it's a hardware issue..Well, I still have a warranty.