Touchpad less sensitive after update?

Hi, I have an HP Pavillion dv6000, and I just installed some Windows updates. I noticed one of them was for the touchpad, but after it installed it's become less responsive. If my finger starts out on the edges, it doesn't respond until it gets closer to the middle (the animated icon, however, recognizes that my finger is there). Sometimes when single/double clicking it won't respond and will take a few tries to get it. (This is just the pad, the buttons are still the same.)

It's usable, and if I hadn't been so used to it after however many years I've had it now I probably wouldn't notice, but it's bugging me a lot.

Any suggestions?

 

Untick "Restrict Pointing to Zone" and increase the Touchpad "Sensitivity"?

 

Should I be looking somewhere other than "Pointing Device Properties" because I have neither of those options...?

 

Look for Synaptics TouchPad in the Control Panel. If you don't have it, you hadn't installed those drivers properly.

 

I don't have it; nothing comes up when I search for it. It wasn't a driver I installed, it was "Synaptics - Input - Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad" from Windows Updates.

When I go into Mouse, the driver date says it was back in October 2011, so I don't think it's that. Is there a way to undo that particular update in Windows Update?

 

Programs and components. On the left of te windows must be button wih word updates.

 

For the future, don't update drivers from the Windows Update, unless you won't be able to find them anywhere else, especially for graphics, audio. For now, you can try a method posted by James D, but there are some updates which you just can't select to uninstall, however, you can try to do system restore, if you have that update listed in your system restore points. Otherwise, simply try to uninstall that driver through device manager.

 

or just do to device manager, choose your pointing device and choose roll back driver.

 

Rolled back the driver... I thought it had worked, in the blank screen before the login screen it was working just like normal, really well, but now that everything's loaded it's even worse than before. I guess I'll update it again and learn to live with it. :\

 

This might have happened if Windows automatically had found missing drivers and installed them, in your case - for touchpad. Have you tried to install these ones: sp56713.exe?

 

Okay. I think I found the real problem. Something is happening after startup.

The touchpad will be normal, perfect, until right when the animated icon in the start bar shows up, then the edges lose their ability to let me move the pointer. My finger is still detected, it just won't move until I'm in the middle.

prebuss, I downloaded what you posted, and reinstalled the driver update (not from WU this time).

How is it changing a setting I don't even have?

 

Just uninstall the program/driver choosing it from the list of programs and components

 

By default, with new driver, you shouldn't get anything like that, as I'm using it with default configuration and it works just fine.
You can try to run (win key+R) msinfo and navigate to the "Startup" tab. You should find one process, which starts once your windows is fully loaded. Look something for process that is called touchpad or smth like that and try to disable it, then restart windows and see what happens.

 

msinfo cannot be located. Searching for startup didn't come up with anything either.

James D, I should completely uninstall the touchpad driver? Wouldn't that make it worse?

 

Then download CCleaner and check in that program (left side) Tools->Startup for touchpad process.

 

Uninstalled the driver and it looks like everything is fixed! Thank you both! Now I'm never installing anything to do with the touchpad again, haha.

 

Welcome. You can give prebuss his 1-st rep points for example. L

 

Done and done!