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May 30th, 2005 06:00

Touch Pad Driver

Today I downloaded an updated touchpad driver to my inspirion 1150 in response ro the Dell Support program, which said that the touch pad driver was not up tp date. "You should update this software to avoid potential Windows issues"
 
I did
Got internal error msg. /touchpad did not install.
 
Antbody have this problem?
  • bacillus

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    Posted May 30th, 2005 07:00

    By any chance were you using an external mouse when you tried to install the drivers?
  • jocase

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    Posted May 30th, 2005 08:00

    No I was using the touch pad to install. Also, when I go to control panel and click the mouse icon, I get a message about inconpatability with the control panel item. However, after clicking the "OK" the touch pad adjustment screen appears. I did not want to try to change any setting just to see if they  would work. So I left things alone. The touch pad works normally.

    During the install I was prompted to create a folder called "Dell updates". I did, but it was curious that it did not already exist.I would think that it would have wanted to install it over the present driver.

    I kinda like to leave things alone when I don't know what I am doing. Unless you or some one else has other I ideas I will look to uninstall or delete the downloaded file from the folder I created.

  • bacillus

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    Posted May 30th, 2005 09:00

    sounds to me like you were directed to the wriong update.
    as for the created folder with the unzipped driver, you can safely delete it.