I have accidentally turned off the tap-to-click function of my laptop touchpad. How do I turn it back on?

Answer 1

I presume you are running Windows XP.

Click Start then Control Panel

In Category View, select Printers and Other Hardware and then select the mouse icon, if you are in classic view, double click the mouse icon.

Select the Device Settings tab, then click settings. Select the Tapping option and make sure the 'Enable Tapping' tick box is ticked on the right hand side.

Tick the box if you need to and then click Apply and/or OK.


*************if this does not solve the problem***************

A recent problem I have experienced saw the tapping option disabled (it would not tap even with tapping switched on). If this happens, it is a power management problem and should be resolved simply by rebooting the computer on batteries and then when Windows starts again, plug in the power cable.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

If you have a little square box down on the bottom right hand side of the screen that looks like a TV with buttons,
right click and will say "tap to click" click on this and a small tick will appear. This happened to me as well and I have no idea how it did. Not very computer knowledgeable so hope terminology is OK.

Answer 3

All you should do is nice click on the icon contained in the taskbar that resembles the touchpad, click Mouse houses then click on the Touchpad tab. the first rather field that you will be able to placed a study in, take the check out then click ok. that could do it!