Acer Aspire One - Random Touchpad/Mouse Clicks I just purchased an Acer Aspire One and I love the computer except for one annoyance. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own. It randomly "clicks" while I'm typing, browsing, etc.My older Dell laptop occasionally does the same thing, but not nearly as much. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so, is there an easy fix? (Other than return/exchange.)Thank you for your time. Acer Aspire One - Random Touchpad/Mouse Clicks I just purchased an Acer Aspire One and I love the computer except for one annoyance. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own. It randomly... » Read More Acer Aspire One - Random Touchpad/Mouse Clicks I just purchased an Acer Aspire One and I love the computer except for one annoyance. The touchpad seems to have a mind of its own. It randomly "clicks" while I'm typing, browsing, etc.My older Dell laptop occasionally does the same thing, but not nearly as much. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so, is there an easy fix? (Other than return/exchange.)Thank you for your time. « Show Less
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I am having problems with my touchpad as well. Hopefully someone has some answers. :(
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My daughter just got an Acer Aspire One 10" and the left-click doesn't work at all. The fact that a nice little optical mouse is included makes me think acer doesn't trust the quality of its touch pad.Other then that, easily circumvented, problem, it's a pretty neat machine.
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Hello. I have had my Acer Aspire One 10" for a few months. Has been fine until recently, the touch pad works for navigating, clicking. But the scroll function along the right and top of the touch pad have stopped working!!! Anybody know how to fix this problem? Thanks!
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Since I am a confirmed mouser, I do not use the touchpad. M. Goldman is correct the touchpad is touchy. I find it helps to disable the touchpad by holding down the Fn key and hitting the F7 to disable the touchpad. If not I find myself sometimes hitting the touchpad when I hit the space bar. This can cause some confusion until you realize what is going on.
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I had the same problem. If you still have the Acer provided softwares, launch Acer recovery management - restore - reinstall drivers. Find touchpad and reinstall the touchpad driver. Simple. If you have uninstalled Acer softwares, you have to manually download and install the driver which is also not too difficult to do. Start with googling the model name. You will probably have to go to Acer's support site and download the driver and install it. After a restart it should work as before.
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It could be that you're hitting the sides rather than the center; since the bottom side serve a as left-right click buttons in a mouse, you generally have to click towards the center of touchpad. I've experienced what you say, but I figured it out by trial and error.
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Just normal, as any other trackpad I've used. It is just bigger than what I'm used too. And the left and right clicks are hidden below the trackpad. And the software for it, works perfectly for Windows 8, with all the gestures and stuff.
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The click isn't that much different than the "click" on a laptop's keyboard. I personally like the touch & feel of the keys, having purchased & returned other keyboards without a solid keystroke feel. The "click" is part of the keystroke design, not just a sound that can be turned off like on your smartphone.
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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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It clicks, which I find annoying. However, if one is mechanically inclined it's easy to remedy. Remove the 2 screws in the battery compartment. Pop open the mouse. Locate the spring on the side of the scroll wheel and remove it with needle nose pliers. Pop mouse back together and replace the 2 screws, enjoy scrolling as smooth as butter. WARNING: this will certainly void any warranty and YMMV. ;-)
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If you are referring to the touchpad there is a feature called palm rejection and you adjust the sensitivity. It seems to be pretty smart and that if you slide your palms on the touch pad it minimizes movement of the pointer. My favorite trick though is to use a USB mouse, and then change the setting that disables the touchpad while mouse is active. It allows me to use a regular mouse but if unplug and need to use my laptop to do something really quick i can either use the touch screen or unplug the usb key and then the touchpad is active right away, plug the usb key back in and the touchpad automatically turns off. It even has a nice amber light to remind you the touchpad is inactive. If you are referring to the touchpad there is a feature called palm rejection and you adjust the sensitivity. It seems to be pretty smart and that if you slide your palms on the touch pad it minimizes movement of the pointer. My favorite trick though is to use a USB mouse, and then change the setting that disables the touchpad while mouse is active. It allows me to use a regular mouse but if unplug and need to use my laptop to do something really quick i can either use the touch screen or unplug the usb key and then the touchpad is active right away, plug the usb key back in and the... » Read More If you are referring to the touchpad there is a feature called palm rejection and you adjust the sensitivity. It seems to be pretty smart and that if you slide your palms on the touch pad it minimizes movement of the pointer. My favorite trick though is to use a USB mouse, and then change the setting that disables the touchpad while mouse is active. It allows me to use a regular mouse but if unplug and need to use my laptop to do something really quick i can either use the touch screen or unplug the usb key and then the touchpad is active right away, plug the usb key back in and the touchpad automatically turns off. It even has a nice amber light to remind you the touchpad is inactive. « Show Less
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I use the touchpad only and have not had problems with it. Sometimes the cursor jumps when I am typing, but I have had this occasionally with other computers. Hope this is helpful.
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I have a Toshiba NB505 netbook which makes that clicking noise from time to time like Aruna has mentioned. I think it might be a Toshiba thing. It usually happens when the CPU fan calms down, or the computer is sitting idle. I was always scared about it but it never seems to affect usage of the netbook so maybe it's normal.
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If you are referring to the touchpad itself you can try to press the F6 key, that toggles the touchpad on and off. If it is something other than that, We would suggest that you visit our Acer Community website (community.acer.com) for support questions like this. You can join discussions with product specialists and members just like you who are ready to guide you through the process of finding solutions to your issues.
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It has more like a mouse bar directly below the touchpad. You tap in the corners of the bar. To be honest, this is an AWESOME computer, but the touchpad is the weakpoint of the machine in my opinion. I would purchase again because I use it as my home computer and always have access to a wireless mouse. If you will always have access to a wireless mouse, no worries.
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If you are referring to the touchpad there is a feature called palm rejection and you adjust the sensitivity. It seems to be pretty smart and that if you slide your palms on the touch pad it minimizes movement of the pointer. My favorite trick though is to use a USB mouse, and then change the setting that disables the touchpad while mouse is active. It allows me to use a regular mouse but if unplug and need to use my laptop to do something really quick i can either use the touch screen or unplug the usb key and then the touchpad is active right away, plug the usb key back in and the touchpad automatically turns off. It even has a nice amber light to remind you the touchpad is inactive.
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Mine lasts a bit longer, but it suspect it's related to how much mousing you do. I read, click mostly with not much scrolling. Mine isn't active as often with the work I do with it. I actually find it a bit hard to invoke the scroll function and usually use laptop pad for any scrolling. ☺️
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same here, it stops reacting by freezing, then when I tap the pad the cursor jumps to the lower part of the screen. It also zooms in on the screen almost everyday nonstop. It drives me nuts! , when I called to complain, the stupid customer service rep acted like he didn't know what I was talikng about, I told him to stop acting like he didn't know. I knew there were a lot a lot a lot of people complaining about this issue. He told me to reinstall the drivers from the website. I did, it works for a little bit, then goes back to the same issues I had before. I just use the gaming mouse that came with the laptop. That solved the problem. But I shouldn't have to resort to using the mouse :( *pissed at asus* same here, it stops reacting by freezing, then when I tap the pad the cursor jumps to the lower part of the screen. It also zooms in on the screen almost everyday nonstop. It drives me nuts! , when I called to complain, the stupid customer service rep acted like he didn't know what I was talikng about, I told him to stop acting like he didn't know. I knew there were a lot a lot a lot of people complaining about this issue. He told me to reinstall the drivers from the website. I did, it works for a little bit, then goes back to the same issues I had before. I just use the gaming mouse that... » Read More same here, it stops reacting by freezing, then when I tap the pad the cursor jumps to the lower part of the screen. It also zooms in on the screen almost everyday nonstop. It drives me nuts! , when I called to complain, the stupid customer service rep acted like he didn't know what I was talikng about, I told him to stop acting like he didn't know. I knew there were a lot a lot a lot of people complaining about this issue. He told me to reinstall the drivers from the website. I did, it works for a little bit, then goes back to the same issues I had before. I just use the gaming mouse that came with the laptop. That solved the problem. But I shouldn't have to resort to using the mouse :( *pissed at asus* « Show Less
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Yes, we had a problem with the touchpad being pressed while using the keyboard and USB mouse. Fortunately, there is a setting that automatically disables the touchpad whenever a USB mouse is plugged in.Also, we had to disable the Win 8 gestures on the touch pad, because it kept doing weird things like pulling up the Windows 8 sidebar (which we never use).
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No, the button's make a clicking noise and swipe pad in the middle makes noise sometimes. The clicking isn't to bad but the swipe is really loud sometimes. It is hard to explain what the swipe pad sounds like. I have had some trouble lately with the mouse working with window's eight. I hope the new up date for window's helps that.