A touchpad or trackpad on laptops is a pointing device with a tactile sensor that allows you to control the cursor or mouse pointer to select text, icons, files, and more. If you are experiencing any of the following symptoms, the suggested quick steps might help.
The cursor moves slowly or erratically
The cursor does not move or respond when you click the mouse buttons
The cursor disappears
To move the cursor, place on finger on the touchpad, and drag it across the surface. The faster you move your finger, the faster the pointer on the screen will move.
If your touchpad has two dedicated buttons, pressing the right button will simulate a “right click”, pressing the left one will simulate a “left click”.
If your touchpad has no dedicated buttons, press the lower left portion of the touchpad inwards, this simulates a “left click”, doing the same on the lower right side simulates a “right click”.
On most modern laptops, if you just quickly tap on the touchpad somewhere near the right mid to lower section, it will simulate a left click.
On most MacBooks you can tap two fingers on the trackpad at the same time to simulate a “right click”. You can have clicking the right side of the touchpad simulate a “right click” by going into the settings and enabling this.
The left button/click of your laptops touchpad is used to primarily interact with your operating system. A double left click, most commonly known as a double click is used to access files, and folders.
However most tasks such as clicking buttons, and navigating web pages, and links can be accomplished by a single left click.
Your probably not going to use the right mouse button/click even 10% as often as your left click. Though it’s still important to know what its main functionality is.
Right clicking an object often brings up a list of options or properties. It allows you to change certain things about what your interacting with. It also gives options to interact with the object in a less direct way.
Other Main Touchpad Functions & How To Control Them:
Scrolling On A Trackpad
Scrolling is something you probably do a lot on your computer if your on the internet a lot. On most windows mice there is a dedicated scroll wheel that makes scrolling a lot easier and more intuitive.
To scroll with your laptop touchpad, find the scroll bar that is most often located on the right edge of your window. Left click and hold the bar, and move your finger up or down on the touchpad to make your window scroll up or down.
Some older laptops have a dedicated vertical strip on the touchpad, where if you run your finger up or down on it. Your windows will scroll in the direction of your fingers movements.
This might seem like a pretty tedious task compared to just having a scroll wheel. However most modern day Windows laptops also have gesture support on their touchpads.
To simulate scrolling, use two fingers and move them up or down on the trackpad at the same time to scroll either up or down. On some laptops you might need to exert more force with your two fingers than others to get it to work.
But if it’s a relatively modern laptop, then chances are it has windows touchpad gestures built in by default.
Clicking & Dragging On Trackpad
You can drag and drop items using your touchpad as well. To drag an item left click on it, and hold. Then you can move you finger on the trackpad, and the item will move along with your cursor on the screen.
To select items follow the same process, left click, and hold. Then use your finger to move your cursor and select however many items that you want.
Perform Gestures On Trackpad
Now gestures aren’t available on all Windows laptop. If your laptop is high end then it almost definitely has support for Windows gestures.
However if you’ve got a budget laptop or an older laptop. Then it might not support gestures, or at least not all of the ones that we are about to discuss.
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