
Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click Additional mouse options. With your touchscreen or mouse, open Settings and go to Devices > Mouse & touchpad. If your laptop doesn't feature a touchscreen display, then you will need a mouse to revive a disabled touchpad.

I'm using a Dell Latitude laptop with Windows 10 for this post, but touchpad settings vary by manufacturer. I'll cover both cases for Windows 10 ($100 at Amazon)laptops - dead and acting poorly. The more common occurrence is where your the touchpad on a new laptop feels finicky or skittish, registering unintended gestures while failing to recognize your intended swipes, pinches, taps and clicks. The first is the nuclear option where it just stops working, which is uncommon but can happen after a software update. There are two general ways your laptop's touchpad can break bad. If you still keep the original disk or the download file of Dell Touchpad, you can try that to repair the program. Believe it or not, reinstalling Dell Touchpad may do the trick. If some of program files that are needed to uninstall Dell Touchpad are missing or corrupted, you may fail to uninstall it. Method 2: Reinstall to Uninstall Dell Touchpad. So, the odds are your touchpad driver is current. I'm using a 2017 Dell Latitude and when I tried to update the touchpad driver, I was told that the driver was up-to-date the driver is from 2006.

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