7510gx touch pad

I bought a 7510gx from Best Buy on Sunday. This is my first laptop and I like it but I am having to learn how to use the touch pad. One problem is the scroll zone on the touch pad. It is interment . Most of the time it does not function. Then after I play with control panel/mouse/device settings/virtual scrolling it might work although check boxes are open and I can not check them. I have read the section in “Using Your Computer” and poked around on system/hardware devices but nothing seems to make it work. The device is “Synaptics TouchPad V5.9,” and the driver is 7.12.3 080ct04.

Thanks for any help or ideas.

David

 

The scroll zone on the touchpad is, in a word, balls. It's just not usable and I'd recommend sticking with the Page Up and Page Down keys or the arrow keys.

I'll be submitting a review soon for mine that sort of talks about how wonky the touchpad itself is. But for me, the scroll zone just wasn't worth the hassle.

 

As far as the touchpad goes, I think it is only screwy with the drivers that come with the gateway. If you end up doing a clean install and use the drivers supplied with windows xp (pro) which is what I did, the touchpad works great. You might try switching the drivers over to the xp drivers and see how that works.

 

Pulp & AoP,

Thanks for your answers. I spent several days organizing the computer and S/W so I am reluctant to reinstall winxp. I have a xpsp2 disk. How can I get the window’s touchpad driver?

Also, does anyone have a Docking Station recommendation?

Thank you. David

 

Gateway support said to remove the touchpad driver and reinstall using the driver recovery application. I uninstalled the driver and rebooted to finish the uninstall. When the computer restarted, it said that new hardware was found and to reboot to finish the installation. When I restarted, the touchpad was installed and scroll zone worked. The driver version is the same as the one I removed. I did not use the dirver recover application.