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    Sony VAIO VGN-SZ640 Button Issue

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by farrif, Jul 30, 2010.

  1. farrif

    farrif Newbie

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    Hi,

    After using my laptop for a few years, my right-click doesn't work anymore so I went to use a mouse. However, after I reset the laptop to factory setting, the right-click work 100%. After using the Window Update, the right-click does not work anymore. I try changing in the touchpad setting, but nothing work. Can someone help me with this issue? Thanks in advance.
     
    farrif, Jul 30, 2010
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  2. leslieann

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    First, install the Alps driver, there is one in the guide in my signature.
    Then go to Intel.com with Internet Explorer and do an automatic driver update.

    Hopefully that will fix it. Windows driver update is often lagging behind and when they finally do push through an update, if it's bad, it can take them weeks to fix it, it sounds like you got a bad one. While the automatic driver system is great when setting up a system and for many drivers, don't rely on it.
     
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    Windows Update doesn't install any Alps pointing device drivers for the Vaios AFAIK.
     
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    farrif Newbie

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    Downloading the driver managed to fix the issue. Thank you for all the help.
     
    farrif, Jul 30, 2010
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  5. leslieann

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    It installs a generic touchpad driver.




    Glad it's working!
     
    leslieann, Jul 31, 2010
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    The generic touchpad driver in included in Windows. It doesn't come from Windows Update though.
     
    coolguy, Jul 31, 2010
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    It's part of the base driver set for Windows.

    If there is an update and you enable it, you can get driver updates through windows updates, but yeah, I don't think they have put out any update for that since Win7 was released. Alps only deals with hardware vendors.
     
    leslieann, Jul 31, 2010
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