Erratic mouse behaviour

[GMichailidis]

Please help!!
for the last 24h my mouse touch pad behaves erratically as if i constantly have the left button pushed down. it has made the laptop useless as i can not do anything.
i have not installed any new programs i am running windows vista enterprise on a SZ3. since i have upgraded i did not manage to get rid of the Aps messages (not signed software0 at start up but everything was running fine
george

[jumpsuit]

Hi there have you tried a system restore back to before this behaviour started?

[PMed]

I once had a similar problem with my vgn-fs415s, i decided to shut it down and leave it for a while, and after a couple of hours i switched it back on and all was fine again. no problem since then at end of august 06

[rich912]

Hi GMichailidis,

Try uninstalling the touchpad in Device Manager, you will find this listed under Mice and Other Pointing Devices (either as a Pointing Device or a PS/2 mouse), then reboot and let Windows discover the device and reinstall the drivers.

[GMichailidis]

hi there,
thanks for the advice
i have unistalled the alps drivers and i am back to normal now. i have to admitt i tried to reinstall (because i liked some of the features like the scroll option and hide as you type )them once more and the same problem occured
i am getting fed up with all the vista problems i have encountered
thanks anyway
George

[rich912]

Hi George,

Have you tried the Vista pointing drivers from here ?

Download and extract the file to a known location (eg C:\Drivers\Pointing) and then enter Device Manager > right click the pointing device and select update driver > point the wizard in the direction of the extracted location. Hopefully this will restore the functions for the touchpad.