Graphics Tablet acting bizzarely... any ideas?

[polo]

I'm using a LaPazz graphics tablet on my vista... it's always worked absolutely fine, no problem.... today is different.
It doesn't want to recognise the pen...
well, it knows it's there, because when i tap it, the little LED light flashes to say it knows it's there, but it won't move the curser around the screen. I put a new battery in  a couple of days ago so i know it's not that. fair enough - it must be broken.

but it's not.
If i open the graphics tablet control panel, and click the 'pressure' tab, the tablet suddenly springs to life and i can use it anywhere... the second i close that little window down, it stops working again...

i've restarted the compter 3 times now, and it's the same story.

W... t... F?!?!?!?!
 

ANY ideas what's wrong with it???

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Try replacing the battery in your pen (if applicable) and/or reinstall your tablet driver/software using its CD.

[polo]

battery is brand new and i've uninstalled and re-installed all the software and checked that the drivers etc are all up to date and it's still the same story - my dad's friend who is our regular computer chap has no idea what's wrong with it either - he thinks it may be some kind of driver conflict or something? but isn't sure what to do about it and i know absolutely nothing about drivers myself. The status says it's working normally, but it clearly isn't... this is very weird! thanks for trying though! i'm open to all ideas - i'm an artist and photographer, so my tablet is very useful to me!

i've googled around and found another person who had a smiliar problem to me, but he was on a mac and apparently, according to my tech guy, that solution won't apply to my vista... so it's a bit of a mystery!

thanks!

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

What was the Mac solution? Do you know?

What is your graphic tablet's model number?

[polo]

yep - it's here:
http://www.justintheloop.com/technology/the-lapazz-graphic-tablet-wp8060-tab08-on-os-x/

the model is the same one i think

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

It seems like the driver software doesn't start automatically.

Try starting it manually.

[polo]

i'm going to sound dumb now, but how do i do that? i'm not too familiar with drivers - i know what they're for, but i've never really meddled with them other than reinstalling them or updating them

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Not the drive, the software. It should be either in the Start Menu, or you can go looking through your Program Files.
I don't know what it's called, but it's just like another program.