Touchpad not working on Windows 8

Anonymous
2012-11-08T17:55:00+00:00

My touchpad is not working after upgrading to Windows 8 Professional. I have a Lenovo Ultrabook u300s, the

touchpad i believe is Cypress Trackpad. The mouse cursor simply doesnt move but I notice if I click the button it will response. I have installed the latest driver from manufacturer support website. The only way

i can get it work is to remove the driver, but the standard drivers by Windows doesn't have the palm detection. Notice also the key button (F6) to disable the touchpad doesnt work anymore

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Anonymous
2013-04-05T10:02:45+00:00

Hi 

I just had this problem with my Packard bell windows 8 laptop, i tried different ways to sort it and nothing worked. i went onto my laptop settings and i had locked my touch pad without realizing and now it works fine, might be worth checking. hope this helps.

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Anonymous
2013-05-04T03:48:15+00:00

This was so simple to fix. Anyone who is having this problem, just look at your function buttons on your laptop. If yours is anything like mine, then you have to press fn before pressing f2. If so, then, look at the keys and there is one with a little image of a mouse/no-mouse. On mine, it is key f5. When pressed without the fn button it locks the mousepad. With that said, I inadvertently locked my mouse after trying to press f5 to refresh a webpage. Hit it just once, and the lock comes off.

That is a seriously pesky feature...

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-01T04:59:57+00:00

    OMG!!! Thank you sooo much!!! Well actually on my Gateway, It was F6. But still you helped!!!! I Had to struggle with a spare mouse I had and I almost spent some money on buying A new mouse!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-26T04:30:57+00:00

    Hello,

    There are a lot of complaints and problems about Windows 8 lately.

    I understand that you don't have any interest in uninstalling and downloading drivers because they're going to take time and at the end they won't work. You can use an automatic PC updater to scan for available driver updates which can work fine with your computer. You can use RadarSync to do it. Go for the free one to have your computer scanned and after finding the drivers which the software will suggest, you can either Google them or buy the license to automatically update the drivers. Well, it is not a 100% assurance that it would fix the problem but it would save you a lot of time searching for the drivers manually which is the hard part.

    I hope this helps!

    David

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-05T03:59:58+00:00

    Press FN+F1 or F2

    Or

    Press Alt+F1 or F2

    Keep on enabling and disabling it until it is enabled/works. I did this on my Sony Viao E series.

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