bronty

I have an Acer laptop and the touch pad doesn't work any more and I have to use a mouse now. Is there anyone in Abu Dhabi who can help or knows anyone who can fix it? Please don't give computer shops, I need a sensible person who understands english. Guarantee ran out last year, typical.

scrubbedexpat141

There's a good little computer shop on Salam street.

Oyibopeppeh

Loads of places on Elektra between the junction of 4th Street and TCA

Bob

If you're up for it yourself, it's easy enough to replace. Find the part online for a few bucks and ten minutes with a screw driver and you're good to go, should be plenty of guides on how to dismantle the laptop via youtube...Just a thought.

britexpat76

Have you turned it on and off?

Johnnyboy11

Check first that it's not just a driver issue:

start>control panel>devices and printers>device manager>mice and other pointing devices>acer touchpad, then right click for options.

Check for an exclamation mark and read any error message
Try disabling then enabling the touchpad
Try updating the driver.

Worth a go.

[J]

bronty

Have gone through all options on the control panel, disabling and enabling touch pad to no avail. There is nothing else wrong with the laptop, and leads me to believe it is the touch pad itself hat needs replacing. Have seen sites showing how to take apart and replace, but don't have enough courage to try something like that. I was hoping that there would be some samarion somewhere who wants to show off heir knowhow, and it woud be so much appreciated.
I know there are short cuts specific to each laptop. Does anyone know the shortcut to disable the touchpad for an Acer. Perhaps this might work just in case I accidentaly disabled it, if anything, I will certainly know what not to do in future.
Thank you all,really appreciated. This is the last resort now.

scrubbedexpat141

Just carry on using a small, wireless mouse?

UKCityGent

Thats the real problem - throw it out and get a new proper laptop else you hold down the funtion button and hit F7

bronty

Dear UKCityGent,
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't have to throw it out after all. Tried function and F7 simultaneously, didn't work, tried one after the other and it leaped into action. How can I thank you?
I was desperate, am not a computer head, and again I thank you.

UKCityGent

Your welcome

Patsy Stoned

Darling, can you explain to me about the new windows 8 thing that they are going to launch in Oct. they said it will work with PCs but I didn't understand what they said about xp. My whole business programme..clients timetable, clients weekly info etc is on xp. Will I lose all that?
I am a total technophobe when it comes to computers
Ta xxx

Oyibopeppeh

Don't worry, your XP era stuff will be backwards-compatible with Win 8

Patsy Stoned

will that happen automatically darling?

Oyibopeppeh

Yep...you probably won't be able to use the additional go-faster features from Win 8, that's all.