Recently two of my relatives complained of the same maddening problem: They’d be typing along on their laptops when suddenly the cursor would jump, resulting in garbled text or even an unwanted ...

Few experiences in life are more infuriating than finding that you've typed four kinds of gibberish because you brushed your touchpad, moving the cursor as you worked. You have a few options: Toss ...

Windows: It's all too easy to brush your laptop's touchpad while typing and inject what should be at the end of the current sentence into a previous one. TouchpadPal disables the touchpad while you ...

A touchpad, also known as a trackpad, is a pointing device commonly found on laptops and some desktop computer keyboards. It offers a convenient and portable way to interact with a laptop or notebook ...

Windows 8 gave laptop manufacturers the chance to be creative, opening the old keyboard-and-touchpad design to new touchscreen models that were previously niche or didn’t exist at all. A wide variety ...

Get tips to revive a dead touchpad or settle down one that's acting skittish on a Windows 10 laptop. Matt Elliott Senior Editor Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and ...

The touchpad’s switch on the keyboard might be switched OFF. The touchpad’s drivers might be obsolete. The settings of the touchpad might have changed. Please connect an external mouse to your system ...

The Touchpad can sometimes be accidentally disabled on your laptop, or you may disable it because it's overly responsive. If you would like to switch it back on or shut it off, this tutorial will walk ...

Use the following fixes if your Acer laptop touchpad is not working. Before proceeding, we suggest you check for Windows Update manually. Install the update (if available). Use the dedicated keyboard ...

Many moons ago I wrote about TouchFreeze, a free laptop utility that solves one of life’s most maddening problems: accidental swipes of your touchpad while typing. (Why isn’t Windows smart enough to ...

The touchpad is an essential component of your Windows laptop, and it can be difficult to get much done if it suddenly stops working — especially if you're not familiar with common Windows keyboard ...