touchpad icon gone- font size erratic changes Been loving my acer however a few days back my icon for touchpad went missing. I am having trouble with font size changing from normal to very small. Also touchpad is really erratic- can't find the adjustment program anywhere. can any one help ? Much appreciated ! touchpad icon gone- font size erratic changes Been loving my acer however a few days back my icon for touchpad went missing. I am having trouble with font size changing from normal to very small.... » Read More touchpad icon gone- font size erratic changes Been loving my acer however a few days back my icon for touchpad went missing. I am having trouble with font size changing from normal to very small. Also touchpad is really erratic- can't find the adjustment program anywhere. can any one help ? Much appreciated ! « Show Less
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Thank you both- really odd. If I pass my finger accross the touchpad- the font shrinks to an unreadable size. anyone have a solutions ? Thanks !
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Go to: My Computer (or Windows Explorer). Go to C:Drive/Program Files/Synaptics.There you'll find a folder with all the touchpad files(settings, tutorial, etc.) Hope that helps...
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You can bring back your touchpad tray icon via Control Panel -> Mouse -> Device Settings Tab:Choose: Static or Animated icon. However, there is little reason why you would want the synaptics icon to be visible. It just takes space. I've set mine to remove icon from tray area. You can change Snaptics settings via the control panel.
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I'm guessing that you are tapping the touchpad while you are typing. This has happened to me a couple of times and it's usually my thumb hitting the touchpad by accident which cause your laptop to revert to the last place your arrow was at...
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We have experienced two laptops we had to return, they are freezing up during upload. The first we had someone look @ right away and was told to return for hard drive was bad. When 2nd one came and started the same problem we sent it back the following day. When we tried to contact Acer because we could'nt even get online with is they wanted $20.00 right away to try to help. That did if for me. We are still waiting for refund from Amazon.!!! Any touchpad was ok, it was centered correctly. Good Luck!!!
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>>Your palm could be bumping the touchpad.This is a common problem. There is one other thing I know of from my experience working for a large, mainframe computer company back in the day. In those times, quite a bit of data input was done by creating punchcards at a keyboard and machine made especially for that purpose. Once in a while, a customer would complain about extra spaces appearing in their data. A common cause was some old gal doing the keypunching whose puppies were getting a little droopy, if you know what I mean. Every now and again they would brush that spacebar and, voilà, an extra space, which the operator would, of course, swear that she had not typed. Just something to keep in mind. >>Your palm could be bumping the touchpad.This is a common problem. There is one other thing I know of from my experience working for a large, mainframe computer company back in the day. In those times, quite a bit of data input was done by creating punchcards at a keyboard and machine made especially for that purpose. Once in a while, a customer would complain about extra spaces appearing in their data. A common cause was some old gal doing the keypunching whose puppies were getting a little droopy, if you know what I mean. Every now and again they would brush that... » Read More >>Your palm could be bumping the touchpad.This is a common problem. There is one other thing I know of from my experience working for a large, mainframe computer company back in the day. In those times, quite a bit of data input was done by creating punchcards at a keyboard and machine made especially for that purpose. Once in a while, a customer would complain about extra spaces appearing in their data. A common cause was some old gal doing the keypunching whose puppies were getting a little droopy, if you know what I mean. Every now and again they would brush that spacebar and, voilà, an extra space, which the operator would, of course, swear that she had not typed. Just something to keep in mind. « Show Less
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That did it, Adam! Times New Roman looks great. Wondering about adding another font--would the new folder have to have both the new font and Times New Roman inside? DougUpdate: I found that when you do a restart, the basic font shows up and you have to select the new one again. I can't be bothered with that. :-(Update update: I found that you can save the font. On the Display options screen under Fonts you'll see Save UCI. Click OK on next screen. The End (I hope)
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UPDATE TO THIS ISSUE: I went to Acer's Store (it's on your desktop unless you've deleted it), clicked on Tech Support and then Email Support. If you complete the form there and write a brief message, the site will come up with suggestions on the erratic cursor. I forget how it was labeled but it shows in a different window just how to adjust the sensitiviity settings to eliminate the issue most of us are experiencing! Try it, I think you'll be happy with the results.
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I have the Acer Iconia w3 so I don't know. hopefully someone else can assist.
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How long have you had it? I'd check to see if it's covered by Acer. At worst, they'll just say no, and maybe give an estimate to fix it.If you bought it with a credit card, some of them carry some kind of replacement benefit on items purchased. I've never tried to use it, though. It would be worth a try to check on that, too. Good luck!
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This is not good for your touchpad Laptop. The best thing you can do is to buy a mini laser tracking mouse to move the arrow wherever you like. Use your fingers only for typing. My best regards. Gus
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The only suggestion I have is for you to turn off the 'Tapping' function on your mouse pad as you might be accidentally tapping on it as you use your space bar. I haven't had any problems with the two laptops we purchased from Asus, but I did turn off that function on both of them. Hope this helps.
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I have installed (custom/clean install) and now running Windows 7 Professional 64bit on 2 acer 1410 Core 2 solo laptops (mine and wifey's), also added 2 gb RAM (total 4gb RAM now). Both worked without downloading any additional drivers from Acer website. Just need to get the driver for the Synaptics touch pad to get the added funtion of dragging/magnify/scroll by using the touch pad. I was skeptic before..see my earlier post but installed 64bit (thanks to Microsoft for $29 Win7 Pro 64bit Student discount) vs the 32bit free upgrade...my $300 laptop is more like a $600 AS1810 version now!
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aye, the font is strange. That was a major complaint in the review I left.My space bar works OK so I'd have to guess yours is a defect.
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I have the Acer Aspire One AO722 and do not have that problem. It is of course a slightly different model, however I believe both have the same multi-gesture pad. Full disclosure: I am far from an expert!
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I'm having this problem as well and so does many other people on the web. The touchpad and keyboard behaves erratically. touchpad is pretty much useless so I have to resort to using external USB mouse. This laptop needs to be recalled. Can someone sue Asus to recall this laptop? Last Asus laptop I'm going to buy because of poor service.
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Sorry, but I don't remember what kind of Acer I used to have. I replaced my Acer 6 months ago.
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Sorry this answer doesn't help with your question.. but at least you can see something. It showed nothing for me on my ThinkPad.
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I did not recognize it before. It seems nothing different. I had this and I had to return it back because CPU fan and touchpad had problems.