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I accidentally disabled the touchpad on a laptop (Presario CQ62 running Windows. I think I must have hit some shortcut key. How can I enable it again?

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What operating system do you use? – Michael K May 19 '11 at 11:50
And which model Presario? – BBlake May 19 '11 at 11:52
By hitting the same shortcut key again? There are not that many Fn + F* keys. Some laptops have a dedicated hardware toggle button near the touchpad. – sblair May 19 '11 at 11:53
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It depends on you're model and operating system. here's three possible solutions:

  1. (for Windows) Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Mouse -> TouchPad On/Off

  2. (for any OS) Look just above your touchpad for a button, probably with an amber or blue light. If it's not there, look along the top of your function keys for an icon that looks like your touchpad.

  3. (for Windows) Go to Start, right click My Computer. Go to properties. Click on the hardware tab and go into it. Click on device manager. Look for your touch pad. Right click it and go to properties. You should have an option there to enable it.

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There is a light on the touchpad, but no button there! – Casebash May 19 '11 at 21:13
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I know on some Compaq Presarios there is a button at the top of the touchpad that will disable it. Check to see if there is a button for that above the touchpad. It could also be built into the touchpad itself, if this were the case you would see a light in one of the corners of the touchpad.

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There is a little button over the keypad with either a red light on or a white one on. if it's red then the keypad is disabled.

To reactivate it you need to press the button until it turns white.

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This happened to me, and I had to go to the driver recovery (on the hard drive) and re-install the drivers. The prompt showed that the drivers were installed correctly, but the touchpad still didn't function.

So, I powered down the computer and REMOVED THE BATTERY for a couple minutes.

I re-installed the battery, booted it up and the computer is back to 100%

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