Sony Vaio VGN-N320E touch pad problem

I am new to this forum and a first-time laptop owner. I'm having problems with the touchpad of the Sony VGN-N320e, which is about 18 months old and in very good condition. Sometimes the touchpad operates as expected. At other times, it becomes almost uncontrollable; hovering over a desktop icon opens the file or program; sometimes icons are 'dragged' across the desktop; sometimes just moving the cursor across the desktop causes rectangles to be drawn. I was working with my online email account and accidentally deleted files when the cursor happened to be positioned over the delete button. Other times clicking or double-clicking on an icon produces no result.

My suspicion is that the problem is software-related. I searched for a driver update for the Alps pointing device and came up empty.

I'm curious to know how expensive this kind of repair can be expected to be, assuming it is a hardware problem.

I appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

Regards,

John

 

Try uninstalling the driver and then reinstalling it. It could make a difference.

Greg