I was rummaging through the services in my (issued) Toshiba Satellite A50 and disabled some processes and accidentally one of them was the TouchPad utility.
This morning when I turned the laptop on, I could only move the cursor by using the mouse, not the touchpad. I tried enabling it like the way I disabled it yesterday, by right-clicking the tray icon, but to no avail.
Then I learned of the shortcut key for enabling/disabling the TouchPad Utility, just by pressing Fn+F9. This toggles the status of the TouchPad utility.
14 comments:
thank you so much
oh my god you saved my life
*gives flowers*
Perfect! I was about to bring mine back to Best Buy!
I have been Googling for this info for weeks. I don't know what I did differently today, but it worked. Now I can type again without the cursor wandering off to some place it's not supposed to be.
I was about to paste a card over the pad.
Thanks!!!!
Dude - This is awesome! You have really saved me a bunch of trouble! I was also gonna call up Tech Support etc. etc.
God Bless you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you ... you saved me a lot of trouble ... Stupid Toshiba - how could I missed it. I was literally searching for the answer for months.
Thanks again for taking time to post this.
Totally and completely awesome. So simple yet so useful. Thank you so much!
Thanks! My cat disabled it by walking on the keyboard and I had no idea what the problem was, but now it's back!
Thanks so much for posting this, I was going crazy trying to figure this out.
I have a similar problem, I disabled a few things with my laptop to get the windows log to quit running except I'm pretty sure I disabled the driver that allows for the able/disable button just above the touchpad to be used. The fn/f9 thing works but I would really like to know the name of the button's driver!
thank you so much. I have been wracking my brain trying to remember how to do this. Would you believe the fn+f9 was the only one I didn't try! You have saved my sanity.
Deanne
Hurray! You saved me a whole of time and trouble...what a godsend. TY for posting.
I have done that but my touchpad will not work! Please help!
I have done this too (found the tip somewhere else) but the settings window would not appear to allow me to disable/enable the trackpad. It does nothing in other words. Problem with my hardware? Or could it be Windows 7 which is not optimized for netbooks? Help would be appreciated. TIA
and still the thank yous come. Thanx thanx thanx. saved me hours of trouble......
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