Touchpad not working after installing a usb mouse - one solution

My touchpad stopped working after I had installed a usb mouse (and an IR remote).

I searched numerous forums and tried everything out there with no success, including the following:

• tried the function key to turn touchpad on/off (the most obvious source of the problem)
• tried reinstalling driver for touchpad from the manufacturer web site
• removed the usb mouse and rebooted
• went to Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Mouse to enable touchpad - touchpad was no longer even listed
• There were no problems showing up in the Device Manager

This all became a bit frustrating because I would have to reconnect the usb mouse to do any maneuvering around the system (since the touchpad was not working) to try something else.

I then tried the following: removed the usb mouse, turned off computer (used ctrl/alt/del, then tabbed to the shut down button), turned computer back on. The touchpad still did not work. Without doing anything else, and with the usb mouse still not connected, I then turned the computer back off, then on a second time - and the touchpad became functional. I plugged the usb mouse back in and both worked again at the same time. In the Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Mouse - both the touchpad and mouse were now recognized.

Hope this helps out others with the same problem (this seems to be a fairly common problem based on the number of postings around the web)

Lemur said:

With MSI, try turning it on with Fn + F3

Thanks.

I had tried that (first item in my list of things I tried based on suggestions from others). It didn't work in my case, but that has been the easy solution for a lot of others on cases I have researched. I pretty much stumbled onto rebooting twice, which fixed the problem in my case.

maybe the mouse has left something on your registry, try to clean it and see if there is any problems. Program to use : CCleaner