windows 8 frozen cursor and touchpad

[intexasatthe moment]

Tried a system restore to a couple of weeks before yesterdays " critical update " and tho this unfroze touchpad and cursor ,all my desktop shortcuts no longer worked and clicking on them resulted in an error message ,something about " unable to find locale data ,please re install " .

I've never had this with a system restore before and it made me nervous ,so I undid the system restore . But now I'm back to a frozen cursor and touchpad .

Anyone any ideas as to how I can unfreeze cursor and touchpad ?

I'm not very savvy .

[Salsaboy]

Do you use Google Chrome as your browser as this is known to have the issues that you're having.

[PokerTime]

You could try reinstalling the touchpad and cursor drivers.

Go into control panel - device manager - mouse and pointing devices.

Right click on touchpad - unistall.

The touchpad will then show with a yellow triangle - right click again - install (or it might say search for drivers).

That should work.

[DulwichFox]

The Mouse-Pad can be disabled from the Keyboard.

Common combination is Function Key Fn + F9 or Fn + F3

Toggling these combos with enable/disable the mouse-pad

DulwichFox.

[the-e-dealer]

Usability is not one of the cornerstones of Windows 8. I have seen seasoned techies trying to start a program reduced to tears.

[intexasatthe moment]

Thank you all .

Dulwich Fox have noted those combinations ,I think I have sometimes inadvertenly hit the Fn button .

Do those combos just affect the touchpad or would they also affect the cusor ?

In the end ,having run a routine maintenance ( and noted that on my settings for this I did not have the " wake my computer up at the scheduled time " button ticked ) things seem ok .

On a different note whatever activates highlighting and correcting of incorrect spelling ,and whatever automatically makes a webaddress appear as a link ( as opposed to something that has to be copied into address bar ) have been disabled .

Predates other issue .

[DulwichFox]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> On a different note whatever activates

> highlighting and correcting of incorrect spelling

> ,and whatever automatically makes a webaddress

> appear as a link ( as opposed to something that

> has to be copied into address bar ) have been

> disabled .

> Predates other issue .

Hi.. Try this:-

Open Internet Explorer: Click Tools / Internet Options / Content /AutoComplete -- Settings

Click on check boxes to enable. (Ticked):-

address bar

favorites

use windows search

suggesting URLs

Forms

Usernames and passwords on forms

Click OK.

DulwichFox