I have a brand new Gateway computer and a week after buying it, the touchpad stopped working.  I contacted customer service with Gateway and they suggested reinstalling the program.  I did so, it's still not working.  Any other ideas?
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Some notebooks have a enable/disable to save battery life when using a mouse instead of the touchpad. Usually, their will be a icon located down in the lower right corner, click on it to see of the touchpad has been disabled, or you can go to start/control panel/mouse then click on the "touchpad on/off" tab to enable it.\n\nIf no luck doing that, then right click on "My Computer"\nclick on properties, click on the "hardware"  tab, click "Device Manage" button, click on the "+" nexr to "mice and other pointing device" to see if the touchpad driver is shown. If you see something with the word touchpad on it, right click on it, click on update driver, follow the the direction on the "Hardware Update Wizard"
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I had a similar problem.  I didn't take it to a PC doctor, I just buried it and played taps.  It was three years old and did fine for me in that time.  Now that I bought a new processor, perhaps I'll dig it up and see if anything can be done.
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Its possible the embedded pointing device is conflicting with the wireless unit. \nTry uninstalling any touch pad software (or other embedded software) if you don't use it, then reinstall the pointing device software.\n\nAnother possibility is an error called double device registration.\nThis has been around since win95 and plagues us still, in essence the machine may have detected the device twice has installed controls for one driver but activated the other.\nTry booting the unit in safe mode and removing all references to mice or pointing devices in the device manager, then restart allowing windows to re detect them.  This often sorts the problem.
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If it is a new laptop, bring it back to the store, contact the manufacturer site for help.\nIf it is old, bring it to the store for repair, cause it is a hardware problem, more fix on your end only cause more trouble.\nKeyboard is a very robust device, so if it doesnt function as expected, it got to be hardware.
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Temperamental little bugger, the LiDE 30. Had trouble with mine at work for a while over the whole "lock scanner" thing. Ultimately, had to reinstall a bunch of drivers on my computer and luckily the thing woke up when I went into the scanner software. If you do all this and it still doesn't function, send a note to the supplier, and see whether they'll be willing to send you a replacement.\n\nGood luck.
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Restart your computer and try again. If that doesn't work, uninstall it then reinstall.
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1. there may be a driver conflict. delete any other driver than the one that came with it in device manager.\n\n2. the driver is no good. delete it and let windows use the generic driver.\n\n3. the mouse is bad. return it to the store. that happened to me with a tablet mouse. i had to return it twice.
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repair your connection.\ngo to control panel, click on connections, right click on your active connection and select repair\nif the gateway still won't renew/repair\ngo to start, click run type cmd\nin the box that popups type ipconfig &#92;release\nthen type ipconfig &#92;renew\nthen ipconfig &#92;all\nand see what the gateway is .  usually it'll be something like 255.255.255.0\nor it'll give the net name of your router, if not then you may have a dns error and possibly have to enter the info manually until you can get it resolved.\nRebooting your modem/router may resolve the issue but if its something corrupted with your connection its not going to fix it for good.\nsearch around for a winsock2 tool\nit'll reset the registry settings for your pc to basically go back to defaults.
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dear friend u must install driver for it\nu can find it in cds \nu must install driver for pointing stick and your touch pad\nif can nor find it have a look in www.dell.com and serach for your Dell model and downloadable softwares\n\n&#92;befor that go too contrl panel>mouse and see if is there any touch pad or device select tab\nif u have "device select" tab beshure that your touch pad in enable\nmaybe it's disable
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Check the following\n->start -> control panal -> system  -> hardware tab at the top -> device manager . Now look at all the devices that are installed on you computer if any have a red cross or a yellow question mark then it is disabled or has a problem, if you find any double click on them to see what is wrong. If there is no problems in the device manager send it back to the computer store.
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I will tell you a solution for a similar problem, hopefully it may be useful to all. \nIf the cursor is stuck/frozen when we use the touchpad it can be solved by the following method.\nSwitch off the laptop, disconnect it from power, remove the battery and keep pressing the Power switch for 30 seconds.\nThen reconnect battery and the external powere in that order and power on the laptop. the cursor will be moving again.\n\nProbably you can try this and let us know.. My laptop was a toshiba satellite series one..
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There was a big discussion about this online at: \nhttp://www.xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?t=54900 \n\nThe conclusion was that it is easier to get the keyboard repaired. You can "In the device manager you should be able to disable the drivers for the built in keyboard. Do this only if you are using a external usb keyboard!" but it would have to be done every time the computer was turned on. \n\nADDED: Note - I just went into my Gateway laptop device manager and it will not allow me to disable the keyboard.
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NO way!  Gateways suck!  I have one & I wish I'd never agreed to take over the pmts on it from my now deceased boyfriend.  I recommend a Dell or HP.  Less hassles, issues, memory problems, etc.  My mom has an HP that's 6 years old & all she's ever done outside of routine maintenance with defrag & such is she upgraded the memory.  Gateway cancelled my warranty when I refused to accept the one year free AOL offer.  It was NOT part of the computer deal or payments.  It was included inside the box as one of 2 special internet offers, the other one being from Earthlink.  When I called Gateway, I went in circles with them over the AOL/Warranty issue.  I was told they don't void warranties for not taking part of any internet offer, they do void warranties for this & back & forth.  After 6 months of this, I bought the warranty for 2 years.  Nothing went wrong until AFTER it expired & my monitor blew.  Gateway said it was a manufacturing defect but because of my warranty/internet refusal, they were refusing to replace my monitor.  6 more months of lawyer calls & BBB calls finally got it replaced, only to have it blow out again.  I replaced it with a monitor to my now deceased uncle's old Packard Bell & have upgraded my memory on this puter.  Sorry to ramble on.  Just avoid Gateway & get an HP or Dell.
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try going to the uninstaller and see if they have a repair option. if not, reinstall the program.
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Common problem with the Dells.  It is caused by the build in "mouse" stick or touchpad shorting.  As it is a short, there is no key combination that will stop it.  It keeps moving until the short stops.  There is no way to fix or clean one that we have ever found.   We replace the keyboards and the palm rest.\n\nI support a site with about 1400 Dell laptops, and we normally replace 2-3 keyboards and touchpad units every week for just that issue.  We get boxes of 25 at a time. Fortunately, ours are under warranty.\n\n If your laptop is still under warranty, contact Dell to have it repaired.
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There is probably a driver to control that. I have a gateway, and its probably the settings thats wrong. Try going to the control panel, get to the mouse settings, and clicking on the tab that says DEVICE SETTINGS. then click settings. you should have a window full of mouse and scrolling settings. \n\nYou need to be useing Synaptics for this to work properly.
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Suggestions:\ncheck that the connection is secure - it may be that simple.\n\nCan you temporarily swap it around with the keyboard on another PC?  This might indicate whether the problem lies with the keyboard or the driver.\n\nIf you go to the device manager and uninstall the keyboard, then reboot, the driver should be reloaded when Windows detects the new hardware as it restarts.  That may fix the problem...\nHope this helps...