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    Acer Aspire 5738z, Windows 7 and touchpad....help

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by naton, May 23, 2012.

  1. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    This laptop was bought with Vista. I installed Windows 7 32bit with all the latest updates. I'm having trouble with the Synaptics touchpad. The cursor is difficult to control, and virtual scroll doesn't always work. I can scroll down but can't always scrolls up. Double tapping the touchpad sometimes work and sometimes doesn't. Last the touchpad is too sensitive.

    I've tried Acer drivers for both Windows 7 and Vista, the Synaptics latest drivers, HP drivers, and Dell drives.

    The issue is the touchpad is not recognised as a touchpad and thus I can't access the advanced features to change the sensibility and other sittings.

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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Have you tried the Acer Alps touchpad drivers? Also, any BIOS updates?
     
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    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    I've upgrade the BIOS to the latest one last night. I've also tried the Alps driver from Acer and from Samsung I think. I got more option, but the touchpad is even harder to use. I checked the laptop hardware with SIW and the touchpad is made by Synaptics, hardware ID SYN1B22.
     
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