# My touch pad quit working. (kind of)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-touch-pad-quit-working-kind-of/581740>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 13, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-touch-pad-quit-working-kind-of/581740 "2011-05-13T01:30:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-touch-pad-quit-working-kind-of/581740/1 "2011-05-13T01:30:34Z")

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I have a Dell lap top with windows 7 OS.

When I turn my computer on, at the log on screen, the pad works fine. But after I log in, the pointer just stays “stuck”. Thankfully, I was able to plug in my USB mouse and it works.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Aestivalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Aestivalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aestivalis)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-touch-pad-quit-working-kind-of/581740/2 "2011-05-13T02:07:59Z")

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sounds like a driver issue of some sort. Can you uninstall the touchpad driver or software?

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-touch-pad-quit-working-kind-of/581740/3 "2011-05-13T04:18:22Z")

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> [@Aestivalis](#):
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> sounds like a driver issue of some sort. Can you uninstall the touchpad driver or software?

Wow. That was easy. I uninstalled it. Then the computer reinstalled it after I rebooted the computer. Every thing works fine now. Thanks!