Touchpad not working after installing a usb mouse - one solution

[FLBill]

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]

With MSI, try turning it on with Fn + F3

 

[FLBill]

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.

 

[mw2]

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