Go to Device Manager, Mice and other pointing devices, right click on SMBus (or whatever's installed there now), and hit Uninstall. This'll stop Windows from "upgrading" the Synaptics driver that we're about to install to that non-working version in OP's screencap.Ħ. Select "No, let me choose what to do" and (under that) "Never install driver software from Windows Update". Go to the Hardware tab and open "Device Installation Settings"ĥ. In the bar at the top of the window you'll see "System properties", and after opening that, along the left, you'll see "Advanced System Settings"Ĥ. Go to This PC (not Quick Access, but This PC, where it shows your drives and all).ģ. The Windows 7 drivers caused bluescreens on my laptop, but the Windows 8 drivers worked fine. Go to and download the touchpad drivers for your laptop (notice also, there are three different driver pages for most laptops I believe, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. The most annoying one by far was having everything work fine until shutting my laptop, opening it back up, expecting everything to work and having the mouse freeze.ġ. Some background, I spent around a month working on this issue, getting everything from a non-working mouse at boot to bluescreens as soon as I touched the trackpad.
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