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    Inspiron mousepad (touchpad?) gone haywire.....

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by anvilring, Nov 30, 2007.

  1. anvilring

    anvilring Newbie

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    I have a wireless logitech mouse for my dell laptop; just plugged it in and without any new software, it just went to work. (all WAS working well...) Then, I decided to downloaded some new software/drivers for it so's to use the "tilt" feature of the wheel. Now my mouse pad on the laptop is all screwed up! I can move the cursor around just fine its just that I can't tap the pad to execute as usual; insted I have to leave the cursor on a button, then use the left clic button (below and to the left of the touchpad) to execute. And of course the USB port I'm using for the mouse won't recognize any new/different device now when you plug one in; like a memory stick with pix on it; the machine no longer opens a dialogue box asking what you want to do, in fact, it acts as if nothing has been plugged in at all. I might add that my machine, only has one USB port. Its a Dell insperion 8600 with XP home on it.
    How could my laptop's mouse pad get screwed up like this? For all I know its been going on some time now and I just didn't realize it, so perhaps its not the new software that caused this problem in the first place. how can I fix it?

    regards, mitch
     
    anvilring, Nov 30, 2007
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  2. Gunner

    Gunner Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm not sure how to fix it in XP, but go to control panel, and look for something like "mouse". There should be an option about pad-clicking somewhere within there.
     
    Gunner, Dec 1, 2007
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    Dell_CA Company Representative

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    Hello,

    My name is Mike, I’m a Technical Analyst at Dell corporate headquarters in Round Rock, TX. I’m part of an internet outreach team developed to interact with the online community regarding technical questions and issues that customers face with Dell products. I read your question and wanted to offer some help.

    This would be the perfect time to try a system restore. Click on Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore. Choose the “restore my computer to an earlier time” option and click Next. Then, choose a date in bold prior to the day the problem started and select the restore point in the window to the right, then click Next. Confirm the restore point on the next page and let the system restart. It will take a little longer then normal to start the computer on this next reboot, but the problem should be taken care of when the OS loads. I hope this helps.

    Mike
    Dell customer advocate
     
    Dell_CA, Dec 4, 2007
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