Compaq trackpad problems

[c0untryf1sh3r]

The wife bought a Compaq laptop about 6 months ago and the trackpad worked fine for the first 5 months and now the trackpad only works when it wants to. Anybody else have the same or similar problem with their laptop? Any ideas to a possible home fix to avoid sending it in? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

[BobT]

A little more detailed explanation of the problems you are having would help a lot.

[MN Mike]

On some of the HP / Compaq Laptops there is a white dot in the upper left corner of the touchpad, if you tap that 2 times, it turns the touchpad off, tap it twice again and it turns on.

Something to look out for.

Mike

[upnorth]

1st try is to go to the compaq site and download the proper drivers for the device. Quite often Microsoft updates bring down Microsoft drivers for devices and they don't always work.

A 2nd thought it are you plugging in an external mouse? That will sometimes causes issues too.