I fixed my touchpad turning off on M15x Vista 64/WIndows 7

After months of trying different drivers and such, I was finally able to get the touch pad to stop turning off once a mouse was detected. I can now use fn-f12 to turn it on and off with no issue. Here is what I did,

Install the touch pad driver provided by alienware. Restart the machine, then go to synaptics web site and download the latest driver appropeiate for your bit version. Install that driver ontop of the driver installed by alienware. Restart the machine again. You may notice and I say may because this did not happens on every case, but you may notice the touch keys at the top will not display on screen commands such as when you press the stealth mod tab it probably not show on the screen. If this is the case just restart again and that should work. I have tried this on Vista-32 and 64, along with windows 7 32 and 64 bit

Trust me, I have several spare hard drive and ran fresh installs on both windows7 and vista to ensure this was not some fluck fix for me. This should work for everyone.

Here is a link directly to synaptics website "http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers"

If this does not work for you please let me know.


Good luck my fellow alienware's users.

 

THANK YOU GOOD SIR.

+rep for your work on this one...

I was recently wondering how I could have my cake and eat it too, in regards to my touchpad.

Right now I'm plagued by it being always on. *grrrr*

being able to use the Fn+F12 combo will be of great benefit.

 

Please post your results if you try the steps. I would love to know if this works for others.

 

It didnt work for me.

After installing either driver, my touchpad is no longer able to use, I am force to plug in a mouse.

 

steveninspokane,

Thats interesting, what steps did you take? I have try this several times on both windows 7 and vista and it worked everytime. So after you installed the driver from alienware then installing the driver from synaptic website you can no longer use the touch pad at all?

 

Ok, I finally got it to work, I had to go into the mouse settings under the Hardware tab, and Disable "Hid-Complient Mouse", and now all is well again.

Thanks for this fixed, now I wont have any more problems typing and skimming my touchpad and it missing things up.

Thank Again,
+Rep.

 

Stevenninspokane,

Good work, glade I could help a fellow alienware owner.

 

Only thing now is, after scrolling on a web page, I have to swipe the touchpad 2-3 times before the courser starts moving.

Does anyone know a fix?

 

Wow, mines work perfectly fine. Try uninstalling and doing it over. Let me know the outcome.