The touchpad on my HP notebook scrolls when i first turn it on but after 5 - 10 minutes of use it will no longer scroll but it everything else works ok.
Any ideas?
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Notebook Touchpad Scroll
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That might be a heat problem. Especially with AMD processors like TL 56,58,60 those HP's get very hot. Some of them are vented to the bottom which makes it even worse. I recommend to get a Coolpad - some call it Chill Mat (but not an USB powered one - should have it's own power). Here is an example that you can see what they look like ( but this one does not have it's own power - could not find the other one quickly). Some have extra USB ports too, which is handy.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm.....tDetail.do
If the problem persists, you can always get a wireless mouse or bring the laptop back to the dealer, if it is still under warrenty.
What Model HP is it?
By the way: My recommendation to get one with it's own power is because of 2 points:
1. Extra power drain from a USB port defeats the purpose because you would be putting an extra challenge on the PC's power management (= heat management)
2. The ones with external power have more ventilation capacity
Just looked the model up. You have a TL64 (real heat engine) and a huge disk ( huge by laptop standards). No wonder this thing heats. Nice laptop especially in view of the $700 price on this site.
http://www.dixons.co.uk/martpr.....7EM/704554
The Synaptics will probably recognize it, but if it is a "mechanical" problem, it would not know.
If you press the middle mouse button, it changes to a scroll icon. You can usually middle click by pressing both buttons by the touchpad. Once you get the icon, you can scroll by moving your finger up and down anywhere on the pad. On my pad I can assign the middle button to a corner of the pad, making it even easier. Try it.
Taybay, If I could understand what you just posted I would be king. Could you expand a little on that thought for us hicks in the south. The first and second sentences are clear. But then you lost me. Where do I get an Icon and how can I assign anything. Remind you that I am currently not on a laptop and I also have no mouse (I have a scrollball) to simulate your suggestion. But once I understand, I'll fire up my laptop.
You can usually press down on the scroll wheel of a mouse. It acts as a third button. In your mouse configuration in the control panel, you can assign any of your mouse buttons to do a certain action. By default they are listed as "primary," "secondary" and "middle." In firefox, for example, primary click on a link will open it, secondary click will open a menu on it, and middle click will open it in a new tab, which you can then close by middle clicking on the tab. If you middle click anywhere that's not a link, a circle with arrows pops up (it looks like a resizing cursor). When this pops up, it uses the mouse to scroll instead of moving the cursor.
On my touchpad, I can click by tapping lightly on it. I can use the mouse configuration window to give the four corners of the pad a certain action. Then I can just tap those areas to activate that function. I really hate using my thumbs to click with the physical buttons beneath the touchpad, so I assigned two of my corners to secondary and middle button. The other two corners are maximize and minimize (which are also functions that could be assigned to any mouse button).
But, not all touchpads have that feature. If your laptop only appears to have two buttons, in some cases you can press both those buttons simultaneously to "middle click."
I hope that didn't add to the confusion! I have a bad habit of going to deep. =P
jd, I have lived in many countries and somehow the southerners are always regarded as being a little slow. Even in little countries like Austria. Must have to do with the sun. And maybe I do not have an accurate grasp of the american semantics of the word "hicks". For me that is someone "layed back".
I guess your post makes since now. You were referring to yourself as a being a little slow and layed back.
The wikipedia page on the word "hick" says "In America, is commonly used as a derogatory term for someone from the rural South".
That how I understood the word also so it seemed like an odd choice of words before.
I really did not mean to be derogatory. Maybe I should make more use of Wikipedia. We have a German equivalent saying which is not at all derogatory, it is just funny - "Fuer das schwaebische Landvolk" which means something like "for the suebian countryfolk" and the Suebians are a tribe in the south of Germany. I guess one has to be careful with foreign languages.
Please don't fret whs, not everyone takes things so literally, especially when they are uttered in first person.
I grew up near Hicksville :)
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