Laptop touchpad issues.

Lucid

My girlfriend recently aquired a new laptop, using vista this time instead of xp. Everything was working fine when we first turned it on, but after a while the right click on the touchpad ceased functioning. Later on, the left click became right click somehow, but the other buttons and the tap pad function did not become inverted. So basically all it could do was right click with the left button. Yeah. I had to use the arrow keys and tab to get to the control panel and get into the synaptics device properties to choose to change the settings, but not in the actual buttons tab where you would normally think to alter this stuff, but in the device setting properties where you change drivers, etc.

So there's no right click function now. Unless we want right click only function. It's not giving both at once.

It's a toshiba L300 Satellite, with vista home premium, with synaptics touchpad.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

eternalbl

Can you uninstall the synaptics stuff and either a) just use the default driver installed by windows, or b) install the latest synaptics touchpad drivers from Toshiba?

Lucid

Well we've installed the latest toshiba driver and that hasn't changed anything. Right click still didn't seem to function in the intermediary time between uninstalling and the new installation.

ApexMirage

You can always grab a usb mouse and use that, either until you fix it or as a fix itself.

eternalbl

What about getting the driver from Synaptics instead of Toshiba?

blakfeld

Try the driver, but for some reason that particular line of Toshiba's has wierd touchpad issues. If the driver doesn't work, I have seen it fixed with a restore, although I cannot begin to tell you why that fixes it.

Lucid

Ugh. So the synaptics driver or even system restoring hasn't worked. I even restored to the point around right after we took it out of it's box(we just got it yesterday.). It's weird, it was working fine when we got it, then mysteriously just started being like this. No visible errors or anything. Even all of the setting for the mouse/touchpad are normal.

Also, everytime I restart the computer after using tab and arrow keys to get back to the mouse controls, it reverts back to right click being on left button and the tap click not doing anything, the right mouse button not doing anything. So it's either left click/no right click, or right click function but no usual left click function.

I don't even really know why I can get it to at least let me do left clicking. I just go to the device properties and click the change settings vista thingy that allows you to, then that's all it gives me left click.

I don't know if it means anything but in the tray icon for synaptics, it's a square with two smaller squares under it, to represent the mouse buttons I guess. The left one flashes when the left click/tap is being used, but the right one is just permanently highlighted/colored in.

Anyways, not sure now. Google leads me to more questions, other people having the same problem but no one seems to have found a solution.

Ripsteel

You could always try contacting the customer service for your laptop (Toshiba), and they might have a solution. But for the time being, you might want to use a USB mouse to help you along with your work.

blakfeld

Before you lose hope, try updating the Bios.

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