A touchpad on a laptop is traditionally something you avoid using unless you really have to, and if it's been a while since you've used one that's a totally fair appraisal. However, touchpad ...

In less than three weeks, consumers will start getting their hands on Windows 8, with its radically new “Modern” (formerly Metro) interface, and forming opinions about it. Some of them will be buying ...

The HP Pavilion's TouchPad replaces your mouse as a pointing device, so you can minimize the need for peripheral devices when traveling on business. This TouchPad is indeed handy, except when typing ...

Most laptops and netbooks on the market come with a Synaptics touchpad built in, but not all computer users are fans of the pointing device. A touchpad might be suitable when performing basic tasks ...

This article explains how to lock and unlock the touchpad for an HP laptop. The first thing we suggest trying is a simple double-tap in the top-left corner of the touchpad. This should work if your ...

The touchpad is an essential component of your Windows laptop, and it can be difficult to get much done if it suddenly stops working — especially if you're not familiar with common Windows keyboard ...

After decades of working with computers, I started to develop some wrist and arm pain a few year ago. So I switched from using whatever random mouse I could find for under $20 to using input devices ...

When your laptop’s touchpad stops responding to your fingers, you’ve got a problem. Have you ever tried to use a Windows PC without a mouse, touchpad, or other pointing device? It’s all but impossible ...

The touchpad has been the standard laptop pointing device for years. Since touchpads are built into a laptop, they work well when you don’t want to carry around another pointing device. Even when a ...

Every modern laptop has a smooth square beneath the keyboard designed to help you navigate without a mouse. On a MacBook, it's called a trackpad; on a Windows PC, it's called a touchpad. But ...

If you find that your HP laptop touchpad is not working on Windows 11/10, use the following solutions to fix the issue. Because your touchpad is not working, you have to use an external mouse to use ...

Run the command cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep -i touchpad to see if the system recognizes your touchpad. If the output looks similar to the following, it indicates that the touchpad is recognized ...