My laptop is only a few months old, and the touchpad randomly stopped working....what can i do?

Voltage can mess with digitizer of any touch screen. Most like the aftermarket power cord is drawing slightly too much power or slightly too less. My guess is slightly too much and when you are setting it on your lap, you are grounding that extra current. Find an original power cord and see if problem persists.

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replace the palmrest
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http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd600/en/sm/palmrest.htm#1000139

there is a Touchpad toggle button with power button it Turns the internal touchpad on and off.

Tap to click is the feature of the touchpad driver. Uninstall any existing touchpad drivers and then restart the computer.
Go to www.support.dell.com enter the computer service tag and get the drivers for the touchpad from there. Also update the BIOS of your computer to the most recent version. In most cases a part replacement is not needed and the issue should be fixed.


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I recommend you to uninstall and reinstall touchpad drivers to isolate the issue.
Press Windows key and R. Type devmgmt.msc in Run window and click on OK. Click on "+" sign beside Mice and other pointing devices in Device Manager.
Right click on Touchpad and select Uninstall.
You will be prompted to restart the computer.
Windows detects touchpad and the touchpad drivers will be reinstalled automatically.
You can also install touchpad drivers from your notebook support website.
You can reinstall the drivers from the below links:
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5920.html
http://www.laptops-drivers.com/acer-notebooks/download-drivers-acer-aspire-5920-notebooks.html
However I suggest you to install the drivers by visiting the acer support website.
Also perform windows update.

Hi there.
The touchpad drivers could be corrupt, try reinstalling the touchpad drivers again.
Go here to Toshiba Support fill in the details of your model laptop and download the synaptics touchpad driver and reinstall it, see if that helps.

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=UK


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maybe you kill all the process that the touchpad use
or you have an virus

Hi!
I resently had the same problem on my HP laptop and search Google for possible solutions. No solution works until I tried Windovs Update and then got 5 alternatives - Synaptics PS/2 port TouchPad was one of them. I update and restart and finally solve this problem.

Terje

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for touchpad, try to remove the battery.
for 4way scroll pad, try to re-install drivers, you can download the driver from acerpanam. they call it, synaptic pointing driver.