Toshiba Satellite Touchpad not working

Try reinstalling the touchpad driver.
You can download the touchpad and device drivers for your model laptop from the Toshiba WEB site from their download page. Make sure you enter the model of your laptop so you can get the correct drivers. Please click on this link: -
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp

We you have installed the operating system (windows xp) but seems like you have not yet installed the drivers

There would be a second disc that you might have got from the manufacturer (application & drivers or Driver and utility CD) please insert the same and try to install the touchpad drivers

Else you can always download the same from the manufacturer website

Try to power drain the laptop first.Turn off the machine, unplug ac adapter and remove battery.press and hold power button for 10 secs then put the battery back and plug ac adapter if needed. turn on the computer and check if touchpad is working if not then check touchpad settings in taskbar, check if touchpad is disabled if not or if there is no icon there go to device manager(right click on mycomputer->properties->device manager)and look for driver for touchpad under mice and other pointing devices.If driver is not there then you have to reinstall the driver. If you have the disc from the manufacturer of the system then run the disc and install driver or if not go the manufacturers website and then download he driver from there.Make sure you restart the machine after installing the driver for it to work properly, also check if the laptop has a button to enable/disable touchpad...some laptops has that kind of feature...Cheers!!!

with the touchpads on my laptops, if you have the drivers installed, you should be able to go to the control panel, mouse settings and in there there should be something for turning the touchpad on and off. if the options arent there, maybe you need to get the drivers for it.

Try going to Toshiba's support page and re-install the driver for the touchpad. If this does not work. You may need to replace the touchpad itself.

go to the synaptics site: http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers
download and re-install your driver.

no worries...

Have you tried FN+F9? on my toshiba to reactivate glide pad I have to use FN+F9

Have you tried restarting the computer? FnF9 for activating the touchpad again.

Hi,

First F8 and choose "last known good configuration".

Second, there is a small button atop the mousepad which turns the mouse on and off; might check that.

Good luck

your synaptics driver may be corrupt, go to my computer>right click>properties>hardware tab>device manager, the nlook down the list for mice and othe pointing devices. Click on the '+' sign and on the synaptics line, right click and select uninstal. Restart the pc and then the driver should reinstall automatically, then give it another try.