I just bought my laptop and the touchpad doesn't work.  Help!?
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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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Holy shit. That's bad.\nYou need to get a new laptop.
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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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If you bought it new - Take it back to the store.\n\nIf it is Used and you cant take it back - Check the keyboard connections. Look in the manual on how to remove Keyboard. If you dont have the manual , look it up online they are everywhere. You may need to replace the Keyboard.
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your touchpad is very sensitive i suppose. if you have synaptics touchpad, in the toolbar manager, you will see a touchpad kind of icon.  right click it, and see if there is a checkmark next to "Tap to Click".  if so, then deactivate it and you won't have this problem again.
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Check if you have all the correct drivers installed. You said that the PC had recently been formated so it could be as simple as incorrect video or mouse (trackpoint, touchpad) drivers.\nYou should check the manufacturer's support site to get the latest version of drivers. If you don't know the address just post your make and model and we'll try to find it.\nHope this helps!
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Are you saying your keybodard and mouse aren't working??\nIf so then replug them while your computer is turned off and start your computer back and it should start working.\nIf it doesn't start working buy a new one...
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Go to the control panel and click on the mouse icon then click on the hardware tab and then click on the troubleshoot button.  That wizard will walk you through your problem.
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Boot into safe mode and see if the mouse is working. Look in device manager for a yellow exclamation mark next to your mouse. Select the mouse and click uninstall in the toolbar.( If you have more than one listing for mouse then uninstall all).\nRestart your system.\n\nTry setting your bios to "Fail Safe Defaults". Save and restart.\n\nIf this doesn't work, then your mouse is most probably dead.
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Did you try a search on HP's site?\n\n\nwww.hp.com\n\nSearch your OS and look for drivers
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get the drivers for XP here and reinstall\nhttp://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?lc=en&cc=us&lang=en&dlc=en&product=59307&
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check the connections in the back of your computer, unplug it and then plug it back in, that should fix it.  If not I bet your keyboard is messed up, new ones are like $10 or less
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just re-install the os.\nfresh.  clean.
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Your laptop does have a numeric keypad.\n\n789\nUIO\nJKL\nM\n\nHold down the FN key, then press the number/letter.
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Since this is a laptop....\n\nCheck out this service manual under Removal and Replacement.  There is a section dealing with the keyboard removal and replacement.\n\nHave a great day.\n\nhttp://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00246219.pdf
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Just go to the control panel, and reinstall your mouse, that should fix your problem..Good Luck..
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Yes, former roommate picked one up. He gave me a demo and threw it on the floor-nothing happened to it. I love using it because it has a touchscreen so you don't have to use the mousepad.