Dodgy touchpad

[Jimmy_M]

Hi there,

 

I have an ASUS Eee PC 1215B that I bought new about 2-3 months ago. It had been working fine until about a week ago when the touchpad (Synaptic) started playing up.

 

When I first turn on the laptop, the touchpad seems to work fine. After a random length of time (anywhere from seconds to hours) the touchpad starts to only operate as if I am doing a multi-touch move (ie zoom, scroll etc) even though I am only touching the pad in one spot with one finger. The touch pad icon in the bottom right side of the screen displays a blue dot as if I am touching the pad in two spots. When it is working normally it displays a green dot when touching in one spot and a blue dot when touching in two spots.

 

When I try to move the cursor as normal, it just zooms or scrolls. If I double tap and hold my finger on the pad on the second tap, then move my finger, the cursor sometimes moves like normal, but doesn't always go where you expect it to, or sometimes only goes straight up or down.

 

Turning the touchpad off and then back on does not fix the problem. Shutting the laptop lid, and opening it again after it has gone to sleep usually resets the touchpad to normal, but not always. It always starts to play up again after a while.

 

I have the latest driver for the touchpad.

 

I am 100% sure that I am not 'accidently' touching the pad in two places.

 

I can not think of any other software I have installed recently and have not detected any viruses.

 

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your help.

[KenB]

Hi and welcome to ExTS

 

Start > ....type in ......devmgmt.msc ........ENTER

Click the + next to "Mice and other Pointing Devices".

You should see ..........TouchPad ..... or similar.

Right click on this > Uninstall

 

This will uninstall the drivers.

 

If you lose touchpad functionallity ...

CTRL + ESC

use the arrow keys to navigate to the "Shut Down" option.

 

When you re-boot Windows will re-install the drivers.