Right Click (copy/paste) not working on Laptop touch buttons

[wildwood]

I have a Dell Vostro 3550 with Windows 7. I recently purchased a Microsoft bluetooth mouse. It works fine, except when the computer goes to sleep and wakes up it take a while for the bluetooth to activate. My main concern is that I can no longer use the touchpad or buttons to highlight something and then right click to copy. The highlighted are goes from blue to normal. Yes, I can do this easy enough with the mouse but I like the ability to do the same with the touchpad. Any suggestions??

Peter

[truenorth]

What about the functionality of the touch-pad when the mouse is disconnected?truenorth

[wildwood]

I've turned off the mouse, via the little switch on the reverse side, and the issue still remains. After a bit of a document has been highlighted and the right touchpad button is depressed the highligthed text disappears and nothing pops up, like copy.

Peter

[Computer_Commando]

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=VOS_N_3550&os=W764&osl=en&catid=&impid=
Looks like a lot of recent drivers, don't know which one is Bluetooth.

[jason2074]

Go to your Mouse Properties - Device Settings tabs- Settings. Look for Buttons and expand, highlight Right Button Action. Choose Secondary Click(Context Menu, Special Drag) and make sure to hit Apply. This settings is on a Synaptics touchpad, so yours may vary. But this is how you will be able/enable to highlight then copy/paste using a touchpad.

[Computer_Commando]

This touchpad is an Alps.

[wildwood]

Jason----THANKS!!!
and you too Truenorth!!!
Peter

[jason2074]

Thanks for letting us know it worked.