Acer Aspire 5100 synaptic touch pad

Posted: 09-26-2007, 09:34 AM

Maverick1251

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I am running vista home premium, and have had no problems, but yesterday, the
synaptics touch pad stopped working, so i have to use a usb mouse all the
time.
I have installed the latest drivers from Acer, to no avail.
does anyone know how I get to the system files, that allow you to
enable/disable, so I can chack if the problem lies there.
The touch pad has some responce on start up, but then stops completely.
I had used registry first aid, right before it stopped working, but I have
since restored all reg files.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I dont really want to do a clean
install.
I have already done an upgrade install, but this didnt fix it.
Regards Steve

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Kerry Brown

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Re: Acer Aspire 5100 synaptic touch pad

Posted: 09-26-2007, 02:56 PM

"Maverick1251" <Maverick1251@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B2E55E22-9652-4A75-BB1C-8B1A1F26AB84@microsoft.com...

>I am running vista home premium, and have had no problems, but yesterday,
>the
> synaptics touch pad stopped working, so i have to use a usb mouse all the
> time.
> I have installed the latest drivers from Acer, to no avail.
> does anyone know how I get to the system files, that allow you to
> enable/disable, so I can chack if the problem lies there.
> The touch pad has some responce on start up, but then stops completely.
> I had used registry first aid, right before it stopped working, but I have
> since restored all reg files.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I dont really want to do a clean
> install.
> I have already done an upgrade install, but this didnt fix it.
> Regards Steve

In the mouse settings in the Control Panel click on the Device Settings tab
and make sure the touchpad is enabled.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

marvin

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RE: Acer Aspire 5100 synaptic touch pad

Posted: 10-03-2007, 11:31 PM

"Maverick1251" wrote:

> I am running vista home premium, and have had no problems, but yesterday, the
> synaptics touch pad stopped working, so i have to use a usb mouse all the
> time.
> I have installed the latest drivers from Acer, to no avail.
> does anyone know how I get to the system files, that allow you to
> enable/disable, so I can chack if the problem lies there.
> The touch pad has some responce on start up, but then stops completely.
> I had used registry first aid, right before it stopped working, but I have
> since restored all reg files.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I dont really want to do a clean
> install.
> I have already done an upgrade install, but this didnt fix it.
> Regards Steve

the same thing happened to me and i did all what you did. come to find out,
my daughter happened to hit the function key (Fn) and F7, which disables the
touchpad.

cvanvolkenburg@gmail.com

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Re: Acer Aspire 5100 synaptic touch pad

Posted: 10-04-2007, 11:40 PM

>
> the same thing happened to me and i did all what you did. come to find out,
> my daughter happened to hit the function key (Fn) and F7, which disables the
> touchpad.

I have been killing myself for the last 3 hours installing and
uninstalling (on my ACER 5570) trying to find out what the problem was
(I thought I had messed something up when I tried to hook up my
SANDISK U3 drive which did not work) ALL Along it was FN F7!!! It
now works, Steve I hope that is you problem...easy fix

I hope I did not mess anything else up with my messing around.

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