Windows Touchpad stopped working for Acer Aspire E1-510-4659

ktang200

My touchpad suddenly stopped working and I don't know what to do about it. I've beening looking around the web for tips and tricks but to avail. I tried Fn+F7 and various similar combinatins but they don't work. I also tried going into my mouse settings to see if it was disabled. It was enabled and said it was working just fine. I then decided to do a MBAM scan because I thought it could be a virus that is casuing the problem and no threats were detected. I then read that pressing F2 during start-up and enabling the touchpad through there is an option. I tried that and the option to enable touchpad wasn't on my laptop. Finally, I read that going back into windows 8 and doing some stuff with the BIOs could help, but this is a used laptop and apparnetly used to operate Windows 8 (can't confirm though) before I got it but I don't think I can change it back. The only temporary solution I have is using an extenral USB mouse, but I want to use my touchpad as well. Help, what do I do? Thanks in advance!

brummyfan2

Hi,

Go to Acer support site, download the driver for Elantech Touchpad, save it somewhere you can access.

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

Go to Device manager(right click windows logo), expand "Mice and other Devices", right click Elan touchpad after highlighting it, select Properties, go to driver tab and uninsatll it, go to the downloaded driver and install it, you need to extract the downloaded driver, open the extracted folder, right click setup and run as admin.