My touch pad works with a mouse,but when I tap my touch pad nothing happen's,thats when I lef click my mouse,it will move the icon,but wont tap on toanything

my laptop pad is not working the cursor is moving but not clicking on anything ......now wot can i do ???

I would verify that you have the compaq drivers installed for the mouse pad NOT the microsoft defaults alot of the time they add functionally like the double tap click and things like that. The link is

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=500746&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=432985&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=228#11318

Its under input devices I selected windows XP I dunno your operating system but if your operating system is Windows xp that will work.

Like this if it worked for you. PLEASE!!!!

In the bottom left of your screen by the clock there should be an icon that says touch pad device, synaptics touch, or something along those lines. If you click on this it will give you different options for the touch pad and one of them is tap to click, make sure this is turned on.

Go to Synaptic pointing device icon at bottom right at your screen (box icon with two spots below it) > Right click > Click "Tap to Click" > Done

You can turn on "tapping" and will be able to tap instead of click. It seems like hardware problem. Take the computer apart and check the flat cable from the touchpad to the motherboard. Check with a mutltimeter whether the buttons are making contact on click.

To turn off the touchpad when an external mouse or other pointing device is present, you can goto the Control Panel and double click the Mouse properties icon.

Click the Device Select tab and check "Disable Touch Pad when USB Pointing Device is present." The cursor will no longer move via the touchpad.

Alternatively, you can permanently disable the touchpad of your laptop by clicking the "Disable Device" in the Touch Pad setting. Advanced users can disable the touchpad from the BIOS setup [press F2 when the computer is booting to enter BIOS settings]

Unfortunately, there are no keyboard shortcuts to enable/disable Touchpad movement or tapping. You can however drag the Mouse icon from the control panel to your Quick launch bar for quick access.

If that sounds too much effort, you may consider adjusting the sensitivity of the touchpad. This can be accessed from the Touch Pad tab of our mouse properties. Choose a low setting.
You can also go to link below to get help.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/disable-touch-pad-of-your-laptop-avoid.html

Pressing F6 on your laptop will disable the touch pad or one of the F keys that has a picture of a finger.

Check in the control panel under mouse. There should be a setting to enable tapping. If there is a touch pad icon on the bottom right of the screen you can also right click on that and select options.

Oh, you mean it doesn't click on tapping.

Okay, this will surely fix it. Something has disabled the tap feature and you need to enable it again. I have seen it with a couple of computers and I fixed them.

Go to Control Panel. Enter the Mouse Settings and select the last (Devices) Tab at the top of the dialog box that appears. There, click the button Properties. In the Window that comes up, select the Tapping option in the left pane. There, click the Checkbox 'Enable Tapping' or similar.

Now click Apply as many times it requires to close off all the Windows that have come up. Now try moving the mouse.

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Ok so here goes.... I had the same problem:

Go to the 'start' button and then hit the 'control panel' option, then click 'mouse' then go to 'Device Settings' and then to the 'settings'. When you get to this screen it shows a list on lthe left hand side choose the 'tapping' option and then ok.

Hope it works for you...it did for me.