Dell Vostro 3550-touchpad/spell check

Hi Gillian77,

Welcome to the Community,

Sounds like the driver for the Touch pad is not installed on your system.Press Fn and F3 keys  and see if that helps you to enable and disable the touchpad.

If it does not work download and install the touch pad driver from the link below:

www.dell.com/.../DriverFileFormats

After installing the driver, either try Fn F3 key or go to Control panel,Mouse,Dell Touchpad.Under touchpad settings you will get an option to disable touch pad.

About the spell check could you confirm, for which application are you trying to activate the spell check?

Hope this helps,

Thank You

Roshan

Hi Roshan,

Thank you for replying so quickly.

You'll have to forgive me, as I'm not the most technically literate, I down loaded the touch pad, following all the instructions.  It now says I have to link my laptop to the download which I have no idea how to action?  The touch pad still isn't showing up after the download.

The spell check is within email, for every email,  I have to set the language to default so I can spell check.

Kind regards,

Gillian

Hi Gillian,

Once you click on the link on my previous post,it gives you a download button.You need to download that file and run it to install the driver.Once it is successfully installed in device manager under mouse and pointing device you will see Alps TouchPad.

Than you can go to Control panel,Mouse,Dell Touchpad.Under touchpad settings you will get an option to disable touch pad.

For email are you using Microsoft Outlook or Windows Mail ? Which email application are you using?

Thank You

Roshan

But yeah no that doesn't work.

I need to disable this god-awful touchpad as well, for the same reason as this post's original author (I've had a lot of laptops and have never cursed a computer trackpad so often and vehemently), and I can get all the way to see the button to disable the touchpad. HOWEVER, as is often the case with this computer, once I reach my final destination from the convoluted path it took me on, the button is unclickable (it is "greyed" out, so to speak). Does this have to do with administration rights on the computer? Or is this just another crazy glitch that Vostro users get to deal with? Kind of like how it doesn't shut down correctly, and there is, amazingly, nothing that you can do about it aside from manually shut it down and potentially harm software?

I realize this post is over 3 years old. Hopefully, maybe, FINALLY, someone at Dell was able to figure it out since then.

Apologies for the frustrated tone. I only sound frustrated because I am frustrated.

Thanks,

David B