I am running vista home premium, and have had no problems, but yesterday, the
synaptics touch pad stopped working, so i have to use a usb mouse all the
time.
I have installed the latest drivers from Acer, to no avail.
does anyone know how I get to the system files, that allow you to
enable/disable, so I can chack if the problem lies there.
The touch pad has some responce on start up, but then stops completely.
I had used registry first aid, right before it stopped working, but I have
since restored all reg files.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I dont really want to do a clean
install.
I have already done an upgrade install, but this didnt fix it.
Regards Steve

"Maverick1251" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am running vista home premium, and have had no problems, but yesterday,
>the
> synaptics touch pad stopped working, so i have to use a usb mouse all the
> time.
> I have installed the latest drivers from Acer, to no avail.
> does anyone know how I get to the system files, that allow you to
> enable/disable, so I can chack if the problem lies there.
> The touch pad has some responce on start up, but then stops completely.
> I had used registry first aid, right before it stopped working, but I have
> since restored all reg files.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I dont really want to do a clean
> install.
> I have already done an upgrade install, but this didnt fix it.
> Regards Steve


In the mouse settings in the Control Panel click on the Device Settings tab
and make sure the touchpad is enabled.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

"Maverick1251" wrote:

> I am running vista home premium, and have had no problems, but yesterday, the
> synaptics touch pad stopped working, so i have to use a usb mouse all the
> time.
> I have installed the latest drivers from Acer, to no avail.
> does anyone know how I get to the system files, that allow you to
> enable/disable, so I can chack if the problem lies there.
> The touch pad has some responce on start up, but then stops completely.
> I had used registry first aid, right before it stopped working, but I have
> since restored all reg files.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I dont really want to do a clean
> install.
> I have already done an upgrade install, but this didnt fix it.
> Regards Steve


the same thing happened to me and i did all what you did. come to find out,
my daughter happened to hit the function key (Fn) and F7, which disables the
touchpad.

>
> the same thing happened to me and i did all what you did. come to find out,
> my daughter happened to hit the function key (Fn) and F7, which disables the
> touchpad.

I have been killing myself for the last 3 hours installing and
uninstalling (on my ACER 5570) trying to find out what the problem was
(I thought I had messed something up when I tried to hook up my
SANDISK U3 drive which did not work) ALL Along it was FN F7!!! It
now works, Steve I hope that is you problem...easy fix

I hope I did not mess anything else up with my messing around.