The touchpad is a century-old feature, long ago replacing the alternative mouse controls. With it we can completely control our device, be it a laptop or a hybrid tablet. Many laptops (Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Dell) have problems with the touchpad. What to do if the touchpad on a laptop does not work in Windows 10? Let's look at 5 ways to solve this problem.
1. Re-enable the touchpad using the Fn key
One story happened to me when I turned on WiFi on my laptop and accidentally disabled the touchpad. For a long time I searched for the reason, without immediately realizing what had happened. It turned out to be simple, laptops have a button additional functions called Fn from the bottom left of the keyboard. To enable any function on a laptop, press the combination of the Fn and F1...F12 buttons. On these same buttons F1-F12, pictures or symbols are drawn to apply the parameter. For example, to turn on the touchpad, you need to press Fn+F7, on the F7 button itself there will be an image like touchpad. You can press all the buttons in order Fn+F1...F12, but remember that there is a function to turn off the display; press again the buttons on which the screen went dark.
On some HP laptops, the touchpad turns on and off, double tap along the edge of the touchpad itself. Asus and acer brands may have a separate button next to the touchpad. If the touchpad still does not work, then move on.
2. Removing Other Mouse Drivers
There are times when you have had a whole bunch of drivers connected in the past from different devices mice and you never deleted them. Some drivers from mouse manufacturers automatically disable the Touchpad themselves. Go to device Manager by pressing a combination of buttons Win+R and enter in the line devmgmt.msc.
Find the line indicating mice and other pointing devices, click on the tab to expand the category and remove all mouse drivers in order until the touchpad starts working on your laptop. If it doesn't work, try rebooting the system after removing all drivers. Touchpad not working? Let's move on to the next point.
3. Update or rollback the touchpad driver
Try updating or rolling back the touchpad driver. Go to the same device manager as described above. Find the device Touchpad, usually it is called the same as the brand of laptop (Dell TouchPad, Lenovo TouchPad, Synaptics, HP TouchPad, Acer TouchPad, Asus TouchPad.) Click right click mouse on your driver and select properties. Next, click Update to see if there are any useful updates for your touchpad.
Many people have reported on the Microsoft forums that the Touchpad stopped working after Windows updates 10, for this you need to select rollback driver. If your Rollback button is not highlighted, it means you don’t have previous version drivers.
In many cases, the device manager does not work to enable TouchPath on a laptop. If your TouchPad still does not work on a laptop in Windows 10, then go to the mouse properties.
- Dial mouse in line windows search and go to Mouse Settings.
- Click Extra options mouse, in the window that opens go Device Settings, tab Touchpad or as in the picture.
- Find your Touchpad and click "enable".
5. Disable touch screen input service for hybrid laptops
If your laptop is a hybrid (laptop and tablet in one) touch display.) There is a possibility that the touchscreen input service, which controls the functionality of the stylus, is interfering with your touchpad.
To disable the service press win+R then enter services.msc and in the list of services find TabletInputService or Tablet PC Input Service. Right-click on it, then disable it. A very inconvenient solution for those who use touch screen and touchpads, but you can then be smart and try to remove the drivers, roll back, update and then restart the service.
First we need to explain what a Precision Touchpad is. This is a touchpad and drivers for it, developed jointly with Microsoft. What are they needed for? They allow you to fully work with touchpad gestures in Windows 10, which will be convenient for most users.
But there is one limitation - the touchpad in your laptop must be from Elan or Synaptics. Most often they are found in laptops from Acer, Lenovo, HP and MSI, but you can also check on laptops from other brands. It’s easy to check the touchpad manufacturer - you need to go to Device Manager > Mice and other pointing devices:
If you are lucky with the manufacturer, then now you need to download the appropriate drivers for Synaptics and Elan, unpack them and connect the mouse (you are not going to use only the keyboard when installing drivers for the touchpad, right?)
Now in Device Manager, right-click on your touchpad > Update Driver. Now you need to click on “Search for drivers on this computer” > Select a driver from the list of available drivers > Install from disk:
In the window that opens you need to select Autorun.inf or ETD.inf from the directory with the downloaded and unpacked driver, after which you need to select Synaptics (or Elan) Pointing Device and click “Next”:
Windows will complain about the driver (we agree with the installation), after which you need to restart the laptop and voila, the settings for touchpad gestures should appear in the parameters:
A special panel on the laptop body next to the keyboard, which is a compact analogue of a mouse. It reacts to the movement of a finger over it; as a rule, there are two buttons (as in a mouse), and a scroll bar on the right. Since the laptop is designed as a portable compact computer, the developers decided to rid it of excess weight and wires by coming up with this.
The problem is that operating system developers, especially Windows, don't tend to think through the details and hardware differences. different manufacturers. Plus, in our country it is popular to use unlicensed copies, all kinds of repacks, cracks, and modified releases. All this and many other factors lead to the fact that the laptop hardware begins to work incorrectly or simply stops doing so.
Most often problems arise with touch panels, since this specific device is typical only for laptops. Whenever there is a problem, we first turn to the Control Panel, where we often find that the touchpad is not visible in the Device Manager.
device Manager
Device Manager is a section of the control panel that displays all connected equipment and offers options for configuring it. In this section you can do the following:
- view the properties of the equipment and diagnose it;
- update, roll back or remove drivers;
- turn equipment on and off;
- view technical specifications.
Contacting the device manager is the first step when there is a problem with any device, and the touchpad is no exception:
- If you find equipment with exclamation point, this means there are problems with the driver.
- If it is not there at all, then the touchpad is probably simply disabled.
Such problems usually arise when installing a new OS on a laptop or after upgrading to latest versions. It happens that laptop manufacturers have not yet managed to create a driver for a new version of the OS, and standard Windows it works incorrectly. In this case, you always have the option of rolling back the system. But remember that not only the updates installed on the laptop will be deleted, but also all changes that occurred after the restore point.
Enabling the touchpad
If there is no touchpad in the Manager, then perhaps the system simply turned it off for some reason when installing the software. There are several options for simply enabling it:
If all of the above does not help, you can try enabling the touchpad through the BIOS:
- Restart your laptop and go into BIOS before starting the OS. There may be a hint on the screen on how to do this. If not, determine this either from the manual for your laptop or through experimentation. This is most often the F2 or F1 key, but it can also be Del, Esc, F10 or some combinations.
- When Bios starts, go right to the “Advanced” tab, then down to the “Internal Pointing Device” item.
- Press Enter and select Enabled.
- Go to the “Save&Exit” tab and exit the BIOS saving the changes.
After this, Windows will boot and the laptop should see the touchpad. If it is still not there, then there is a problem with the driver.
Driver update
If after turning on the touchpad appears in Device Manager, but with an exclamation mark and still does not work, you need to reinstall the driver. First, try using those that are already in the system:
Check if the touchpad is displayed correctly in the Manager. If not, then you need to download the driver yourself from the manufacturer’s website. As a rule, on such sites, your version of Windows is automatically detected and you will be offered required driver. Otherwise, find the driver for the laptop of your model and the required OS version yourself. It’s better to go to the website of the laptop manufacturer, rather than the touchpad itself, it will be easier to find there.
Download the installation package to your laptop, run it and follow the installation instructions of the program. If you downloaded not the installer, but only the archive with different files drivers, then follow the steps described above to update the driver, specifying the downloaded folder as the search location on your computer.
If the Manager again gives you a message that the drivers do not need to be updated, click “Uninstall” in the window, and then “Install”.
After completing all the steps, do not forget to click “Update hardware configuration” if the Device Manager window has been open all this time. Thus, problems with the touchpad are usually associated either with driver failure or simply with the system turning it off. However, if all the methods did not help, and the laptop still does not see the device, then the cause may be a problem with the laptop hardware itself and it is better to contact a service center.
10, the touchpad just needs to be turned on.
Enable the touchpad on a Windows 10 laptop
In order to enable the touchpad, you need to press a special button on the laptop keyboard. This is the Fn button. We hold it down and, while holding it, press the F7 key (in other laptop models this may be F4).
However, in some cases, this problem can be solved using the touchpad settings. To do this, click “Start” and right-click on “Control Panel”.
From the list required parameters select “Mouse”.
The Mouse Properties window opens. Go to the “ClicPad” touch panel tab.
Uncheck the "Disable internal" checkbox. decree: device when connecting an external decree. USB devices" and click "Enable". If these steps do not work, click “Restore default”.
A new window will open. Click “Restore all settings to default”.
Afterwards we reboot the PC.
Update drivers for touchpad
In order to update the driver for the touchpad, you need to open the “Device Manager” and go to the “Mice and other pointing devices” section. Next, select the touchpad and right-click “Update Driver”.
In the new window, click “Automatically search for updated drivers.”
A search for drivers for the touchpad will begin.
The system will notify you about the installation or availability of the latest version of the software.
If automatic driver search fails to solve the problem. You need to go to the laptop manufacturer's website and find the driver for the touchpad.
If the touchpad on your laptop does not work, then the first thing you need to do is look at the driver and, if necessary, download and install it.
There is no universal driver for the touchpad. Laptops are not only different, but hundreds of models can have the same names.
For example, asus, asus eee pc, x101ch, x550c, 5750g, n56v, k56c, x751l, k53s, x53s, r510c, k56cb, x502c, x200m, 751mj, x751l, x55a, k55v, k52jt, f402c, x75a, k 73е, n56v, 1015n, 1015b, f83t, s56c, k50ab, f80s.
Acer aspire e15, v3 571g, 5750g, es1, e1 571g, e1 531, v3 q5wv1, e15 511, es1 512, 5560g, e3 112, e5 571g, e1 572g, 5552g, v5 5 series, e5 511.
HP pavilion g6, dv6, probook, g7, dv7, 17 p003ur, 630, g7 2329sr. lenovo, lenovo g580, b570e, v580c, g500, g570, g550, g700, g505s, b560, m5400, b570, b50.
Packard bell easynote entf71bm, entg81ba, te69hw. Dell inspiron n5110, m5110, n5050. Toshiba satellite, l300, Toshiba, c660, a215 s7437
Samsung np355v5c, np300. Sony vaio vgn ar51mr. Emachines. Msi ge70. Fujitsu and many others.
Moreover, different operating systems can be installed in it: windows 10, windows 7, windows 8, windows 8.1, and with different bit depths - 64 bit or 32 bit.
Therefore, here I will describe in simple language universal ways to download the driver for scrolling the touchpad touchpad, which is located under the keyboard.
The highest quality option to download a touchpad driver for a laptop
The ideal option to download a touchpad driver for a laptop is undoubtedly the manufacturer’s official website - everything is free there.
But not all manufacturers are conscientious about supporting their products and often it is not possible to download from there.
Then it is advisable to use the official website of the developer of the touchpad itself to download the driver.
Immediately take into account that he is not alone - there are three of them. Accordingly, the drivers are completely different.
How do you know which one is yours? To do this, click on the “mice and other pointing devices” section.
There you should see two branches. You need the bottom one. Right-click on it and select properties. Then in the top line, click on the equipment ID.
In my case it is ACPI\VEN_SYN&DEV_0A06. You should only be interested in the characters highlighted in red in this line just above.
For me it is SYN - this means that my laptop needs to download a driver from the touchpad manufacturer SYNAPTIC.
If you see PNP, then you have a touchpad from ALPS, and if ETD, then from ElANTECH. Below you will find links to drivers from these touchpad developers.
Download the touchpad driver from the manufacturer SYNAPTIC:
Http://www.synaptics.com/en/drivers.php
Download touchpad driver from ALPS manufacturer:
http://www.alps.com/e/index.html
Download the touchpad driver from the manufacturer ElANTECH:
http://elantech.com
A universal option to download the touchpad driver
The option above has important drawback. Manufacturers' websites do not support the Russian language, which is really bad.
Most readers will not be able to find what they need there, so I will offer a simplified universal version.
It is based on the device ID. This method is very simple and can be used by any beginner.
All you need to do is read the short instructions (with pictures).
If this option doesn’t work, then there is another option. Below is a link to a site where you can download any driver for any laptop, including for the touchpad. https://driver.ru/?C=43
What to do if not a single method helped. There is a solution here too. This is a comment describing the problem. Good luck.
To work on a laptop, having a mouse is not a prerequisite. All its functions can easily be replaced by a touchpad. But for stable operation it needs special software. In addition, the installed drivers will help you fine-tune the touchpad and use its maximum potential. In this lesson we will tell you where to find software for the touchpad of ASUS laptops and how to install it.
There may be several reasons for installing touchpad drivers. An error that appears or simply the inability to enable or disable the touchpad itself may lead you to such a decision.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the options for solving this problem.
Method 1: ASUS website
As with any drivers for ASUS laptops, the first place to look for software is to go to the manufacturer’s official website.
This completes the software installation process from the ASUS website. You can verify that the installation went smoothly using "Control Panels" or "Device Manager".
To check using "Device Manager" the following is required.
- Press the above keys "Win" And "R", and in the line that appears, enter the command devmgmt.msc
- IN "Device Manager" find the tab "Mice and other pointing devices" and open it.
- If the touchpad software was installed correctly, you will see the device in this tab "ASUS Touchpad".
Method 2: Driver Update Utilities
We talked about such utilities in almost every lesson on drivers. A list of the best such solutions is given in a separate lesson, which you can read by following the link.
In this case, we will use the utility. To install touchpad drivers, we recommend using this one, since other programs have had problems finding similar equipment.
You can learn more about how to install software using this utility from a separate material.
Method 3: Search for driver by ID
We have dedicated a separate lesson to this method. In it we talked about how to find out the device ID and what to do with it next. In order not to duplicate information, we suggest simply reading the following article.
This method will help you bring your touchpad to life. It is especially useful in cases where previous methods did not work for one reason or another.
Method 4: Installing software using Device Manager
If the touchpad flatly refuses to work, you can try this method.
One of the methods we described will definitely help you enjoy the full range of touchpad functions. You can disable it if you connect a mouse or set special commands for certain actions. If you have any difficulties using these methods, write in the comments. We will help you bring your touchpad back to life.
In most cases, the touchpad driver on laptops is installed automatically, and the touchpad works without any additional actions, but sometimes you want to change the touchpad settings. I installed Ubuntu on many laptops, and on almost all of them the touchpad for some reason was very sensitive to any touch, I always wanted to lower the sensitivity or disable the ability to click on it or completely disable the touchpad.
To change some touchpad parameters we will use the GSynaptics program. But first you need to check? Do you have the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics touchpad driver installed (Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org/XFree86 server). Don't confuse Synaptics with Synaptic. Synaptic is a package management program for Ubuntu, and Synaptics is one of the touchpad manufacturers.
Synaptics TouchPad driver
The Synaptics TouchPad driver allows you to change various touchpad settings (single or double tap response, sensitivity, response to finger movement - horizontal and vertical scrolling, and others).
To install the driver, run the command in the console:
Sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
If you already have the driver installed, then something like the following message will appear:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading status information... Done Most already installed a new version xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. ...
Installing the GSynaptics touchpad setup program
Let's install the GSynaptics program. To do this, type in the console:
Sudo apt-get install gsynaptics
Now, if you try to run Gsynaptics, you will most likely receive the following warning "GSynaptics couldn"t initialize. You have to set "SHMConfig" "true" in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use Gsynaptics."
This is due to the fact that you must first register the touchpad in the xorg.conf file and set the SHMConfig option to true.
Setting up xorg.conf
The xorg.conf file is configuration file X server on Linux, it is stored in the /etc/X11 directory. Open the xorg.conf file by running the command:
Sudo gedit xorg.conf
Section "Section name" Elements Options... EndSection
We need to register our touchpad in the xorg.conf file. To do this, add the following lines to the xorg.conf file:
Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "SHMConfig" "true" EndSection
We have defined a touchpad device section named Synaptics Touchpad that uses the synaptics driver.
After this, you need to add the following line to the ServerLayout section:
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
The ServerLayout section may not be present in the xorg.conf file. But you need to add it carefully, since it summarizes the Screen and InputDevice sections. Therefore, if you create a ServerLayout section, you must include your Screen and InputDevice sections in it, otherwise the system will not want to load any driver. Here is an example of a ServerLayout section:
Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection
After editing the xorg.conf file, log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.
Launching GSynaptics and setting up the touchpad
Go to System->Administration->Touchpad. The GSynaptics program will launch. The program consists of four tabs with settings:
- Are common. Here you can disable the touchpad completely and also adjust the sensitivity of the touchpad.
- Pressing. Enable or disable touch response, as well as set the press time.
- Scrolling. Setting up vertical and horizontal scrolling when moving your finger on the touchpad, setting the scrolling speed.
- Acceleration. Setting the speed (sensitivity) of mouse cursor movement when using a touchpad.
Changing any settings occurs instantly.
