donteatthepie
08-10-2010, 06:56 AM
By which I mean it will always move the cursor around the screen, but its other functions vary.
When I first turn the laptop on, the scroll thing at the right hand side of it (sorry I don't know all the technical names!) and the zoom functions work well, but tapping the touchpad does not carry out the 'click' function (so I just use the buttons, but it is surprisingly annoying!)
Sometimes after I have had the laptop on for a while the touchpad will freeze and I will get a notification saying that the software has stopped working etc etc, so I just get rid of that notification (using the keyboard) and the touchpad works to move the cursor again, but after the notification the functions that work are reversed - it doesn't scroll, but tapping does left-click.
I was just wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this (I've had it for probably a couple of months) and if there is anything I could do to fix it?
It's really driving me mental having to remember which state of not working my laptop is in to be able to use it quickly and not be tapping/scrolling like a madwoman before I remember :s
[edit] PS - I didn't think I'd put this in the sticky as it is a different problem, though if it needs to be deleted/merged sorry!
When I first turn the laptop on, the scroll thing at the right hand side of it (sorry I don't know all the technical names!) and the zoom functions work well, but tapping the touchpad does not carry out the 'click' function (so I just use the buttons, but it is surprisingly annoying!)
Sometimes after I have had the laptop on for a while the touchpad will freeze and I will get a notification saying that the software has stopped working etc etc, so I just get rid of that notification (using the keyboard) and the touchpad works to move the cursor again, but after the notification the functions that work are reversed - it doesn't scroll, but tapping does left-click.
I was just wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this (I've had it for probably a couple of months) and if there is anything I could do to fix it?
It's really driving me mental having to remember which state of not working my laptop is in to be able to use it quickly and not be tapping/scrolling like a madwoman before I remember :s
[edit] PS - I didn't think I'd put this in the sticky as it is a different problem, though if it needs to be deleted/merged sorry!