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07-23-2012, 09:15 PM | #1 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Computer Touchpad Stops Working I have a year old Sony Vaio and after a while on YorkieTalk, the cursor will just freeze, as if the touchpad is no longer working. Using the mouse will restart the touchpad working, but that gets to be a hassle to have to do that several times an hour! I have looked about a bit on the Internet and conventional wisdom seems to think the touchpad or pointer driver might be corrupted and suggests uninstalling it, restarting the computer and allowing the default driver to re-install? Has anyone ever had that type problem and is that what you do when it has happened? I used to uninstall/reinstall drivers all the time to refresh things in XP but never have in Windows 7. Any ideas? The Vaio Model name is: VPCEH12FX. My Vaio Model # is: PCG-71913L and the mfg. date is 2011-05. Help!
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07-23-2012, 10:00 PM | #2 |
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| My mouse does it quite often. I right click to find the cursor, then it functions good till it happens again. I don't know why and I haven't tried to fix it yet... but I'll update if and when I do try...
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07-23-2012, 10:25 PM | #3 | |
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You right click to restore yours? I'm going to try that rather than reaching for the mouse - sounds lots faster and easier as a stopgap. Oops - tried that and it doesn't work on mine unless the touchpad already working. Waited til cursor froze and disappeared just now and did it and nothing happened. Reached for the mouse & up popped the cursor! What can't I get mine to right click appear? Maybe I have a setting I can change.
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07-23-2012, 11:32 PM | #4 |
I♥PeekTinkySaph&Finny Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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| Okay... it could be a virus... suggested running 3-4 different antivirus/spyware checks... Updated drivers? (should install even better than XP, Vista is crap, lol) run Chk disk for errors SFC /scannow (System file checker utility) and/or do a repair reinstall of the OS. (Also read a Synaptics touchpad problem they're still working on)
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07-24-2012, 05:49 AM | #5 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I have Norton Internet Security and have run 3 full systems scans since Friday, run all of the system tools and diagnostics daily, get my Vaio and Windows updates automatically, including all drivers, and my daily system tools updates includes the System File checker, disc/registry cleaners and defrag programs and I don't know what a reinstall of the OS is but that sounds like you might lose everything such as settings etc. I don't have Malwarebytes in this computer too as I did in my old one because it used to fight with Norton and cause me problems. Don't you think uninstalling/reinstalling the touchpad driver and then getting the driver updates might be something to try first before the OS work and installing another virus/malware hunter? What if it is something that simple? A corrupted driver could cause the touchpad to stop working properly couldn't it? Has anyone ever done it in Windows 7? And did you have a copy of the driver on CD or jump drive before you tried it?
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07-25-2012, 07:45 AM | #6 |
Love My Little Cuties Donating Member Administrator Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Charleston, IL
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| If your driver is up to date I'd try to roll it back. In your Device Manager if you select your touchpad then the drivers tab Win 7 has that as a standard option.
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07-25-2012, 12:07 PM | #7 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Thanks! I'm going to try that. I don't know why I'm such a wuss about doing this in Windows 7 when I used to do it in '98 and XP all the time. It will reinstall on restart, won't it? It really will?
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