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Erratic mouse behaviour

GMichailidis — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:56:35 GMT

Please help!!
for the last 24h my mouse touch pad behaves erratically as if i constantly have the left button pushed down. it has made the laptop useless as i can not do anything.
i have not installed any new programs i am running windows vista enterprise on a SZ3. since i have upgraded i did not manage to get rid of the Aps messages (not signed software0 at start up but everything was running fine
george

Re: Erratic mouse behaviour

jumpsuit — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:34:18 GMT

Hi there have you tried a system restore back to before this behaviour started?

Re: Erratic mouse behaviour

PMed — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:07:13 GMT

I once had a similar problem with my vgn-fs415s, i decided to shut it down and leave it for a while, and after a couple of hours i switched it back on and all was fine again. no problem since then at end of august 06

Re: Erratic mouse behaviour

rich912 — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:45:45 GMT

Hi GMichailidis,

Try uninstalling the touchpad in Device Manager, you will find this listed under Mice and Other Pointing Devices (either as a Pointing Device or a PS/2 mouse), then reboot and let Windows discover the device and reinstall the drivers.

Re: Erratic mouse behaviour

GMichailidis — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:02:26 GMT

hi there,
thanks for the advice
i have unistalled the alps drivers and i am back to normal now. i have to admitt i tried to reinstall (because i liked some of the features like the scroll option and hide as you type )them once more and the same problem occured
i am getting fed up with all the vista problems i have encountered
thanks anyway
George

Re: Erratic mouse behaviour

rich912 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:33:15 GMT

Hi George,

Have you tried the Vista pointing drivers from here ?

Download and extract the file to a known location (eg C:\Drivers\Pointing) and then enter Device Manager > right click the pointing device and select update driver > point the wizard in the direction of the extracted location. Hopefully this will restore the functions for the touchpad.