First, lets make sure that scrolling is still enabled. Look in the bottom right of the taskbar and see if your synaptics icon for the touchpad properties is there. It will either look like the touchpad or it will be a red icon in the shape of a tear drop. If it is there, right click on it and scroll to properties. If it is not there, go to the control panel and click on mouse properties. When the mouse properties window opens, look on the top right hand side and look for the tab marked device properties, click on this tab...this is for the touchpad settings and controls. When this window opens, look in the left hand pane and scroll down to "scrolling", see if the box is checked to enable scrolling....if it is checked, uncheck it, hit apply, then check it again and hit apply again, click ok and exit. Now, if you do not see any of the above and all you see is mouse settings, then the driver for the touchpad has been corrupt and you will need to go to HP support drivers and download a new driver for the touchpad. Go to the link below and put in the model number of your laptop, then in the next window pick your operating system, now, scroll down and find the touchpad driver listed. Download it into a folder on your deskyop, open the file and run it, it will install a fresh driver. Reboot the laptop and all settings will be on by default.
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html
Enable the wireless network card on the laptop.
Some laptops use a physical switch on the front or side of the computer to enable and disable the wireless card.
Most newer laptops use a software switch that can be toggled with a couple of keys on the keyboard.
The most common software switch toggle is by pressing the "Fn" key and "F2" at the same times.
Click the wireless icon by the clock in the lower-right corner.
Click on an available wireless hotspot.
Stronger signals are represented with more and longer bars.
Click the "Connect" button.
Enter a password, if required.
Click on Home, Work or Public when the dialog box appears.
Each of these three options represents different security levels.
When connecting to a public Wi-Fi hotspot, always select "Public."
Hope this helps.
There are two kinds of networks: public and private. Private networks have a lock icon next to them. Public don't. The bars next to each network name indicate the strength of the connection - the more bars, the faster connection you'll get.
To join a public network, just tap the network's name and you'll join it.
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