Notebook touchpad

[SKYTE]

I plugged a Logitech USB Optical Mouse into my SONY VAIO, unplugged it and now the laptop touchpad & buttons have stopped working! Tried recovery disc's to restore defaults with no success.

[ale52]

Look in the BIOS and see if there is a touchpad configuration feature that got disabled.

Alan <><  

[SKYTE]

Thanks. Looked in BIOS and could not see any options for the touch pad. The touch pad should come up in device manager. There is a folder on C drive called pointing device with the ALPS drivers which would be the drivers, but the touch pad is not in device manager.

[GX1_Man]

Touchpad will usually be under mouse or pointing devices, rather than listed as a touchpad.

[patio]

Go to Add Remove Hardware and remove the mouse...re-boot and your touchpad will return.

Unfortunately you can't have both on a lot of laptops.

patio.   8-)

[soybean]

Unfortunately you can't have both on a lot of laptops.

I have limited experience with laptops but I'm surprised to hear that.  I assumed they all would recognize both touchpad and mouse at the same time.  That just makes sense; surely, connecting a mouse to a laptop is a common practice.

[patio]

Depends on the manufacturer and on how old it is...i've seen plenty that work and plenty that don't.

patio.   8-)