![]() ![]() I am posting to this forum in the hope that my time spent on this problem helps someone else. Before I discovered the solution by accident, I tried many things: deleted and reinstalled the synaptics driver, contacted Acer support, toggling Fn-F7, shutting off and removing the battery pack for 1 minute, reinstalling the synaptic drive from the acer erecovery CD, going back to a windows restore point, and booting up in Winxp Safe mode and even clearing out the Flea power (taking off the battery and holding down the on button for a minute). ![]() ![]() Check Windows System Information, under Components/Input/Pointing Device, you will see the Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad. When I caused a short with my finger, the touchpad came back to life. For some reason Synaptics drivers for Windows 10 do not recognize the touchpad in older models of notebooks and the touchpad is recognized as the ordinary mouse, consequently it is working as an ordinary mouse and all the beloved gestures are not working. There was some kind of electrical short causing the touchpad to not work. We strongly recommend not to change Windows registry if you are not a system administrator. I solved the problem by touching the USB port while the computer was plugged into the power with the battery attached. ![]() My touchpad stopped working on my Acer Aspire One AOD running Windows XP. ![]()
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