My acer aspire one touch pad doesnt work properly, i can see on the screen that the cursor/pointer is moving whenever i use the touch pad,. however, once, i click it., it does not move and have to click the left-lower portion of the touch pad for the cursor to respond. what shall i do? Thanks

You can try following step:

• Double click on touch pad icon in your system tray. click on "Pointer Options".

• Then click on "Advanced" tab in left upper corner.

• Click on Advanced Feature setting. Click on "Settings" in Pointer speed and tapping setting box. Uncheck "Enable Tap" box.

• Click Apply.

Download a new touch pad driver here at acer:

http://support.acer.com/us/en/product/default.aspx?tab=1&modelId=3474

The driver needs to be unziped before installation.

And restart also.

Hope this will help you.

Glad to HELP YOU!

First of all try to clean your touch pad with a SOFT CLOTH gently soaked in a GLASS CLEANER fluid. Make that as good as you can and you will remove all the dirst that may occur during the function of your computer, generating "fake movements" of the cursor.
Second: go to
START > CONTROL PANEL > MOUSE icon > DEVICE SETTINGS
and disable touch pad or check box to hide cursor while you are typing.

GOOD LUCK!

easiest fix is to use a usb mouse........
cheers

Sounds like the touch pad may be bad or isn't installed.If you look under hardware and it installed then most likely the touch pad may be bad.

Did you swtich from touchpad to regular mouse recently?

If not plug in a mouse and go to control pannel and click on mouse icon.

See if the touch pad is turned off in that section, if it is turn it back on and unplug your mouse

If its on then reinstall the touch pad driver from your manufacture driver page.

If it still does not work you may have a defective touch pad that needs replacing

I hope this helps

Sounds like the touch pad is not working anymore. try using a USB mouse and see if that works. also, see if you can reinstall the touch pad software to fix that.

hello

If rest of your window is working fine and the problem is with the cursor only then you have to uninstall the touch pad driver then reinstall it.

If you don't have the driver you can download the driver from Acer's website.

thank you

hello, have you tryed adjusting the sensitivity of the touch pad to a less sensitive touch ?

When that problem happens to me I turn off my pointer pad. I have a Compaq Presario and it has a button to shut off the mouse pad. When I simply shut it off it does not jump when I am typing. I don't know the originating cause but at least I can make the annoyance go away when it would bother me the most. Hope this helps.