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Touchpad will not respond
My Inspiron N5030 is about 3 weeks old
Today while working on a spreadsheet, the cursor simply froze. Nothing would move it.. I tried rebooting - twice. No joy.
The cursor does work normally when I connect a mouse, however, so I infer a problem with the touchpad.
It has worked fine up to now - apart from an occasional episode of "getting drunk", as noted by other users - when the cursor does such odd things as refusing to "go all the way", as if it has run into an invisible barrier.
Any suggestions?
bctinc
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January 16th, 2011 06:00
My son's Dell N5030 from Xmas 2010 now has similar problem. I haven't started working on it yet. Have you tried any Control Panel > Mouse ?
Or have you searched for and downloaded and installed any new mouse or Synaptic touchpad drivers?
Thx
Rob
bctinc
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January 16th, 2011 07:00
Hi - I found that there was an X on the Synaptics system tray icon. My guess is, somehow, my son (or one of his friends) disabled the Synaptics touchpad. Simply right-click on the system tray icon, and re-enable. Done. Phew!
Good luck!
Rob