The touchpad on a laptop does not work - what to do?
It is precisely because of mobility that laptops are extremely popular today. A laptop is a great computer, but with much smaller dimensions and greater portability. Today we will talk about one component of all modern laptops. Let's analyze such a component as the touchpad, namely, consider the reasons for its inoperability. So, a touchpad is an analogue of a computer mouse. This device is a small sensor unit located on a special panel. The touchpad has almost all the capabilities of a computer mouse.
If the touchpad on your laptop does not work, then you need to follow a number of simple steps. First of all, you need to check whether it is turned on at all on your laptop. In most cases, the laptop has a special button with a touchpad icon that can be used to turn on and turn it off respectively. It happens that this button only works together with the Fn key held down. Be sure to check all of this, as these are the most common reasons for the touchpad not working.
There are situations when the touchpad does not want to turn on under any circumstances. In this situation, you need to check whether the touchpad is enabled in the BIOS. For every laptop model BIOS login may be different.
Even more rarely, the touchpad may not turn on due to the lack of drivers for it. You can check this in Device Manager under the "Mice and other pointing devices" menu. If there is nothing in this menu or the touchpad is displayed with a yellow triangle, then you need to install drivers for it. You can download them from the official website of the laptop manufacturer or using special utilities, for example, DriverPack Solution.
If none of the above has helped you revive your laptop’s touchpad, then the problem here will be hidden in a physical or software malfunction of the device, which can only be fixed at a service center. If your touchpad is not working, then the recommendations given here will help you revive it. If the problems are serious and you cannot fix them, then you need to take the laptop to a service center. As a last resort, you can use a regular USB mouse on your laptop.
