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Touchpad not working, nor will the driver instal
I'm using a Dell Inspirion N5010, with synaptics touchpad support. I used a registry cleaner (how stupid of me!) and it screwed up all of my drivers and now my touchpad won't work. I uninstalled the touchpad driver from my computer, but when I try to instal it from the file Dell provides, it says "Installation failed." I've tried system recovery, but it doesn't work (it told me it couldn't use system recovery because of a problem with AVG antivirus), and I tried the recovery option on the registry cleaner, but it doesn't do anything (won't restore any of the files).
My soundcloud driver also had to be reinstalled, and now the handy little popup window doesn't show up when I adjust my volume (but it works, at least). There's also some network problem, because I keep getting an error message about not connecting with some dll file.
I'm very close to just wiping everything and completely reinstalling windows, but of course I'd like to avoid that. Any help would be lovely.
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I managed to get the touchpad working through a system restore, but there isn't any scrolling support. Unfortunately, there isn't an option for me to roll back my driver (I managed to fix my soundcard doing that (yeah that got screwed up, too)). I'm wondering why the installation fails (I've tried it many times)...... Thanks for the help, so far, though. I'll try it in safe mode and see how that works later tonight.
Thanks again!
Pittsburgh58
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Posted May 7th, 2011 08:00
I get a message when I turn on my computer that the touchpad is "disabled" and reloading the drivers and utilities doesn't work?
I didn't disable the touchpad. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Arjun the geek
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Posted May 6th, 2011 23:00
try checking in safe mode....
Try doing a system restore first...if it works fine check how its working....
if that dosen't work try a driver roll back in device manager....
if u can brief me what is happening i can try helping u...