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06-21-2014 04:27 PM
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I too experience this annoying problem occasionally, and have no idea what I've done to trigger it. When it happens, I get an alert on the screen and the orange light to the left of the touchpad lights up. No amount of tapping on the orange light seems to work, although I haven't tried a careful double-tap. I usually press the power key once, then press it again and I get back to where I was with the touchpad working.
So, what causes this? And how can it be prevented?
I have a Pavilion dv7 with Windows 7 Home Premium; my touch pad is Synaptics Touchpad V8.1.
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