re: Touchpad mouse pointer frozen

Posted on 9/9/14 at 1:42 pm to Fearthehat0307

Posted by Korkstand

Member since Nov 2003

28733 posts

Posted on 9/9/14 at 1:42 pm to Fearthehat0307

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being that when I awake it from sleep mode or restart it works for a few seconds before freezing again, it doesn't seem like this would be the issue.

I found this just now:

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After some major frustrations with troubleshooting, I finally figured out what must have happened. In reaching for Fn-F10 to mute my sound, I had inadvertently hit Fn-F9, which turns off the trackpad. The disabling of the trackpad didn't take effect immediately upon hitting Fn-F9; it probably took 30 seconds or a minute before I lost the cursor. There was also no notification on the screen to tell me that I had disabled my trackpad (in the same way this laptop displays "Caps Lock ON" or "Caps Lock Off" in big bubbles when I hit that key) and there was no confirmation dialog asking "You are about to disable your trackpad. Are you sure you want to do this?". The change only affected the account in which I was working when I had hit Fn-F9, which was reasonable; that also explained why the second account didn't lose its cursor. My guess is that Windows doesn't check to see if the trackpad is off immediately upon bootup but does it several seconds after giving you the desktop; that's why the trackpad still worked for a minute or so despite supposedly being off. Once I turned the trackpad back on with another Fn-F9, everything was perfect again.

So perhaps you have accidentally disabled the trackpad, and there's a delay before Windows disables it.

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Posted by Fearthehat0307

Dallas, TX

Member since Dec 2007

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Posted on 9/9/14 at 3:40 pm to Korkstand

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I found this just now:

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After some major frustrations with troubleshooting, I finally figured out what must have happened. In reaching for Fn-F10 to mute my sound, I had inadvertently hit Fn-F9, which turns off the trackpad. The disabling of the trackpad didn't take effect immediately upon hitting Fn-F9; it probably took 30 seconds or a minute before I lost the cursor. There was also no notification on the screen to tell me that I had disabled my trackpad (in the same way this laptop displays "Caps Lock ON" or "Caps Lock Off" in big bubbles when I hit that key) and there was no confirmation dialog asking "You are about to disable your trackpad. Are you sure you want to do this?". The change only affected the account in which I was working when I had hit Fn-F9, which was reasonable; that also explained why the second account didn't lose its cursor. My guess is that Windows doesn't check to see if the trackpad is off immediately upon bootup but does it several seconds after giving you the desktop; that's why the trackpad still worked for a minute or so despite supposedly being off. Once I turned the trackpad back on with another Fn-F9, everything was perfect again.
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So perhaps you have accidentally disabled the trackpad, and there's a delay before Windows disables it.

you are my fricking hero

come to think about it, I do remember hitting function F10 to mute it yesterday and I probably did exactly that. it's working now that I hit function F9