Touchpad not working (locked) for only one of two users in XP on my V6Va

I have reinstalled the touchpad driver and switched the hard drive to my backup V6Va, and still have the problem.

Any thoughts?

 

I fixed the problem. From googling, I found out that the V6 series has a special key (the far left key of the thin keys lined up in front of the battery) that toggles locking and unlocking the touchpad. I had never noticed this feature.

A mystery remains: why the problem occurred in the first place. I am sure I did not hit the toggle before it happened. The problem occurred a few days ago too, but went away at the next restart that time.

 

Maybe it's keeping the state of that button separately for each user, and then that user pressed the button by mistake.

Heh, nice to discover features on your notebook after a few years

BTW you can see whether the touchpad is on by the LED light, it it's lit blue then the touchpad is on.

 

I was the user at the time in each case, and simply experienced the cursor ceasing to work as I was going about regular activity. It does seem to keep the state separate for each user, though.

Yeah, how about it. I had a little laugh over it too.

Your V6J was the first in the V6/VX1 line to have that LED light, so my V6Va does not.

 

Oops. I didn't know they didn't put it on the V6V.

If it happens again, just reinstall ATK Hotkey and Synaptics drivers.

V6J was also the last in the line, unfortunately.

 

The second version of the VX1, the "VX1-1B" version, or "Lamborghini Gold Edition" version, was the final release of the line. The VX1-1A Lamborghini Platinum Edition *was* the same sub-generation as the V6J.

Thanks about ATK Hotkey; that may be corrupted. I will try to reinstall it before getting another occurrence of the problem.

Edit:

For North America, the 1A/Platinum Lambos were the Core Duo ones: the black VX1-5E003P and the yellow VX1-5E004P.

For North America, the 1B/Gold Lambos were the Core 2 Duo ones: the black VX1-5E009P and the yellow VX1-5E010P.

The Platinum ones may not have been called Platinum at first, possibly not until the Gold ones were announced.

 

Oh yeah, I forgot about the VXes. Could never figure out why they would take a perfectly good computer, paint it yellow and make it more than 50% more expensive.