Cq50 laptop touchpad random issue

Try the suggestions in this link.
Disabling the touchpad on my Latitude E6410

Have you tried an external mouse to ensure that the pointer works?
Usually these problems are due to either a defective pad driver or a history of a spilled liquid contaminating of the contacts, or a settings issue (i.e. touchpad is turned off). Hve you trued any of these obvious problem areas?

Please provide a few more details such as Win OS version, TouchPad driver version, etc.

Go here(http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/welcome.html#Product) to drivers and support. My touch pad button turned white and orange, but the pad was still active either color. I downloaded the drivers and wow, how nice now not to end up typing somewhere in the middle of my paragraph.

Try the mouse settings in the control panel, also try uninstall any touchpad software and remove any touchpad software from running when the pc boots.
To do this either type msconfig into the run/search box or a program like cc cleaner under tools/startup

it may be a setting on the touchpad that you can set in control panel

Most of the time the settings are either found in the control panel and then mouse or else in start > all programs> and control (sometimes Catalyst center) you can also right click the pointing device in the taskbar and in device settings it will allow you to disable it from here.

this is probably a driver issue if you are lucky other wise the touch pad must have become faulty

if its a driver issue go to this site
http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers
and download the drivers according to your operating system

install them and check if the touch pad starts working

if not then its probably a physical fault and needs replacing

please update drivers for touchpad ...it helped me to solve my prob on Toshiba satellite :)

Hi there.
The touchpad drivers could be corrupt, try reinstalling the touchpad drivers again.
Go here to Toshiba Support fill in the details of your model laptop and download the synaptics touchpad driver and reinstall it, see if that helps.

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=UK


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A simple but temporary solution would be to use an external mouse. Logitech sells several affordable and very nice wireless mice. Then you could disable the touchpad. I find them more trouble then their worth anyway and by using an external mouse you'll most definitely increase your productivity. :)