Hiring a specialist to replace a damaged touchpad including parts and labor may easily cost 200.
Touchpad doesn t work hp laptop.
First make sure you haven t accidentally disabled the touchpad.
In all likelihood there s a key combination that will toggle the touchpad on and off.
If the touchpad is disabled your laptop touchpad stops working.
A touchpad assembly cost 100 or more and that s not including replacement installation.
I had to borrow my mother s external mouse.
I ve done that about 5 times today and it still doesn t work.
After i would wake it up from sleep it wouldn t work but if i turned off my computer and turned it back on it would work just fine.
If the touchpad still isn t working the windows device manager can tell you detailed information about hardware issues and help you update drivers for example if there s a yellow exclamation mark or red x next to it there s a hardware or software issue.
Check the dot at the upper left corner.
Some plucky users found that the problem stemmed from the serial io drivers that let the laptop communicate with external devices including the touchpad which were out of date.
So you can check and enable the toucpad in your laptop to fix it.
My touchpad on my hp pavilion 15 doesn t work.
My dell inspiron laptop doesn t have function key for such a purpose but look at your row of function keys and see if one has an icon that looks a tiny touchpad with a diagonal line through it.
There are two ways to enable touchpad in your hp laptop.
Hp touchpad not working.
To locate the touchpad in device manager follow the steps below.
There s an issue that s been specifically affecting hp laptop users on more recent versions of windows 10.