Scroll stopped working on touchpad (laptop, mouse, screen, icon)

[Mama2012]

I have an older Dell Studio laptop (I know, beast right?) I used to have a touchpad icon in my notifications bar, but its gone now. My scroll up/down and left/right stopped working and now when I go to Mouse settings the touchpad ettings aren't there anymore. I remember checking the settings a long time ago so they were there at one point. I would like my settings back too because my touchpad is set to slow, it takes a good 5 swipes to get across the screen. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[plwhit]

Try some of the tips Dell has on it.....

touchpad scroll - Dell - Search -

[Mama2012]

I'm trying the download link that was at the page you gave me. I really hope it works, I've been at this for about 5 hours :s

[Mama2012]

OK it worked! I looked on the Dell website first, I don't know why I didn't find that before! I feel silly now lol thank you so much plwhit.. My touchpad hasn't worked right in months, but I just decided tonight to try and fix it.. It feel great to use it properly. Again, many many thanks

[Konraden]

Originally Posted by Mama2012

OK it worked! I looked on the Dell website first, I don't know why I didn't find that before! I feel silly now lol thank you so much plwhit.. My touchpad hasn't worked right in months, but I just decided tonight to try and fix it.. It feel great to use it properly. Again, many many thanks

I suspect you updated the driver? Windows has a bad habit of installing drivers as part of its windows updates that don't always work like they should. Mouse-pads and audio seem to be the two most common that I've run into.