laptop mouse not working

[Tregrad]

I have a gateway T series laptop. I was dragging a window to the side so i could see the rest of teh desktop and the window "stuck" to the mouse, I could not get the window unstuck so i hit Escape, now i cant get the mouse pad to work at all. I cant get into the "snapteks" or what ever its called to fix it. I got into teh mouse properties but cant change anything because the mouse doesnt work.

any ideas on what to do?

[glc]

Does a USB mouse work?

[jdeb]

Go into device manager and roll back the touchpad mouse driver. Something may have corrupted it. If that does not work, try re-installing it. If you recently updated it, that may be the culprit. Sometimes windows update does it if your not careful as it would fall under an optional update.

[Tregrad]

yes a usb works, and i have gone through all the setting and cant find the problem. the right button works (brings up menus), left button does not and i cant "click" by touching the pad quickly but the pad does move the mouse.

[glc]

Sounds like the touchpad itself is broken.

[Tregrad]

everything was working great until i hit ezcape. forgot to mention that its a vista machine

[Tregrad]

is there a diagnostic tool for it?

[glc]

If a USB mouse works properly but the touchpad doesn't, it sure sounds to me like the touchpad and/or its buttons have a physical problem.

Try uninstalling the touchpad software and driver and use the standard Windows mouse driver - that MIGHT fix it.

[jdeb]

Have you roll backed and/or reinstalled the driver?