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Has the touchpad mouse on your Toshiba laptop quit working in Windows 8? I have a Satellite S855-S5378. It’s been a good machine for the most part. The fan can get a little loud, and I’m not a huge fan of Windows 8.
I can’t blame Toshiba for the latter problem though.The other day my touchpad quit working out of the blue. By out of the blue, I mean my cat walked over the keyboard and it stopped. The annoying part was the touchpad mouse would work before logging into Windows 8 but not after logging in. At first I said, “oh well,” and plugged in a spare USB mouse. That didn’t last long.Google led me to a thread at:Their solution seemed like a pain. I decided to check my settings before going to so much effort. How to Check Settings Toshiba Synaptic Touchpad Settings.
Oct 30, 2012 Solved Trackpad Problem - Toshiba Satellite Laptop Thread starter jaXtech; Start. Bought a new laptop yesterday with Windows 8 OS, when I try to use the touchpad on the laptop to move the cursor about the screen, it does not move as I want and this morning it has gone completely. Windows will automatically load a driver for the device. Download Toshiba Satellite Pro C850 Synaptics Touchpad Driver 16.2.10.3 for Windows 8 (Keyboard & Mouse).
Click on the up arrow on the right side of your taskbar. Click on the Synaptic menu3. Select pointing device properties4. Click on the Device Settings tab and make sure the Enable button is pressedIf you are lucky like I was, this solution will solve your problem. Otherwise, you might want to try the more tedious steps described in the Toshiba forum.Best of luck!
Toshiba Touchpad Not Working Windows 8
If you decide to give up, here is the link for the. Thanks for the straight forward solution. It worked perfectly.No cat in the house.I have a Toshiba Satellite S50t-C. The function keys (F1 – F12) have been swapped with dedicated functions on each key. To use the keys as function key, you have to hit a dedicated Fn key simultaneously.
This is the opposite of normal desktop keyboards. I am accustomed to hitting the F5 key to “refresh display” i.e. Refresh a file explorer window or a browser screen.
Toshiba Satellite Touchpad Not Working Windows 8.1
On my new Toshiba laptop, the F5 key has a symbol showing a “Touchpad/No Touchpad”. Hence, hitting the F5 key toggles the touchpad on and off.I think that’s how I inadvertently disabled the touchpad.
