Hello,
On my HP Pavilion dv6000 with Vista, my Synaptics touch pad V6.3 left click is not working properly. It was fine yesterday but today when I try to use, it will highlight everything or try to drag the link with it. Almost as is it has a mind of its own and someone is holding down the shift key and clicking. I tried a system restore back to yesterday just in case I downloaded an update or accidentally changed the settings but the touch pad still has the problem. I also tried the double tap method on the touch pad itself with only about a 75% success rate. I then went into the control panel and then mouse and changed the settings to a left handed so that I could at least navigate around to find some help. When using the right click as my primary I have not had any problems and I can even use the left click sometimes. Since this left click and after switching the hand method began today, I have also had my laptop "lock" up several times where I was not able to navigate around but I could crt-alt-del and wait a min until I was able to click on task manager. When I was brought back to normal windows desktop and TM opened, I was able to navigate as if nothing had just happened. Can anybody please help....is this a settings issue, a touch pad issue or something entirely different? Any suggestions on how to fix the problem? Thanks
Configuration: Windows Vista Firefox 3.0.1
Reply to nicholasyonko
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I've been having the same problem lately.
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I also just had the same problem. My left-click button on my touchpad is now acting as a right-click button (and the right-click still as the right-click). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling new Synaptics drivers several times.
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Yeah, my left mouse button won't work either but that's because it's broken. in order to fix it, u need to buy and install a new synaptics touchpad, i just can't figure out if that means individual buttons, or if the whole touchpad is connected somehow . it's really hard to get to the mouse when ur taking the laptop apart so i'm a bit scared to try it w/o watching a tutorial first so if anyone has, and can post up, it'd be much appreciated thanks!
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Any luck on this for anyone?
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Reply to jimm
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Reply to Shiv
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I had a similar issue on a Dell Latitude E6400 at work -- a few minutes after logging on the left click on my touchpad either wouldn't work or sometimes operated like a right-click. Occasionally this also affected my external mouse, though most of the time the external mouse was fine.
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Reply to antonis
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I don't know about all the reinstalling and uninstalling and replacing and all that but I had a similar problem with my Synaptics touchpad. I could tap the pad to select or click or anything, I could just move the pointer and had to use my physical buttons to select or click anything. After reading this forum and updating my drive nothing worked, I even went and followed the advice of one person who wrote "Go to your mouse settings in the control panel, you should have a "Device Settings" page <with a sinaptics logo on it>
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This just happened on my HP2730P. I always used the click on the touchpad, plus used the right click button at the bottom. Yesterday it just decided to stop working and went haywier...it started doing the selecting and dragging while I was moving the mouse around and my left click stopped working. Obviously my enable tap click was already on cuz I used it all the time.
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I just bought HP HDX16T laptop this month and the touchpad was working well. The left and right buttons below the touchpad were also working well. About 3 days ago, the touchpad just stopped working. I could move the pointer about on the screen but cannot use it to open any document or folder. The left and right buttons below the touchpad have also stopped working. I have tried all the suggestions provided on this forum without any success. Does anybody know of any other thing I can do to solve this problem? |
Enable buttons check box instantly enables tap to click and scrolling functions if unchecked, but then buttons don't work. If check box is checked right click works, but left click, scrolling and tap to click don't.
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