Touchpad is not working, follow these methods

Touchpad is not working, follow these methods

It is not always necessary to take the laptop to the service center for touchpad related problems.  

It may be possible to fix this problem at home.  

However, you need to be careful. 

These methods will help your laptop's touchpad to work normally again:

There are times when using a Windows 11 laptop that the touchpad suddenly stops working.  

After the update to Windows 11, many users have started having problems with the touchpad of the laptop.  

By the way, there can be many reasons for the touchpad not working.  

The touchpad may have accumulated dustunder the touchpad or malware may have caused the touchpad to stop responding.  

If for some reason your laptop's touchpad isn't working, you can carefully try to fix it yourself.  

Let's know how to fix touchpad functionality issues: 

1.Use Device Manager Use: 

Device Manager within Windows is an effective management tool to fix touchpad driver issues. 

Touchpadd drivers can be easily updated and repaired through this..... 

•Press the Windows key and search for and open the Device Manager app.  

• Within the Device Manager window, search for Mouse and other devices. Here right click on the Touchpad option and click Update driver.

• You can either choose to update your drivers online or you can also browse through the system to update it manually.  

• Select the preferred option to update touchpad drivers. Restart the system after the update installation.  

2.Reset touchpad configuration: 

Sometimes it happens that your recent app install/update also caused a change in the preset configuration that caused the touchpad to stop working How to fix this problem.  

You will have to manually restore the default settings for your touchpad Search for and open Touchpad settings 

• by pressing the Windows key and then clicking on the option 'More touchpad' settings.  

• After selecting Touchpad, click on Settings.  Click the 'Restore All Defaults' button to restore the touchpad to factory configuration.  

After this the problems related to the touchpad should be gone.  

3. Check whether the touchpad is enabled: 

Some Windows users have complained that their touchpad was automatically disabled after updating to Windows 11.  

To fix this problem and restore your touchpad To bring back the functionality of the key, you have to enable the touchpad manually by accessing the settings.  

• In Windows laptop, first search for touchpad settings, then click on 'More touchpad' settings button.  

• Then select Touchpad and click the 'Enable button' below it to enable it again in Windows 11.  You have to reboot your system for this settings to apply.  

4. Uninstall / Rollback Windows Update: 

If the touchpad in Windows 11 laptop has stopped working due to a recent update, then to fix this problem, you have to manually install the latest update applied to your Windows system.  

Rollback then uninstall.  

• Open the Windows 11 laptop's Settings app, then on the left sidebar click on Windows Update and next you have to go to the Update History option.  

• Then click on Uninstall Updates option.  Now select the latest update by time, then click on Uninstall.  The system needs to be restarted for this change to take effect.

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