Touch pad buttons buttons don't work on HP pavilion 2300 notebook

I have an HP pavilion 2300 notebook that has unreponsive mouse buttons. If you press and hold for several seconds or continually click on them it may or may not work. The touchpad works good but the mouse buttons seem like they are stuck.

 

Look up your model at the HP website
www.hp.com/support

I see "ALPS touchpad pointing device drivers ". I would look in Add or Remove Programs for any ALPS listing and uninstall that before installing the new ones.

Matt

 

The touch pad works properly it is the buttons that have an issue

 

Did you try Pete's suggestion?

I also see "Synaptics touchpad drivers" at HP, but I might expect "pointing device drivers" covers the buttons.

If you say, connect an external mouse and install drivers and (helper) software for that mouse, it can corrupt the touchpad drivers, Edit: I would not discriminate between "touchpad" and "buttons ", I expect they are part of the same set.

You might want to check in Control Panel for any settings for the buttons (there might be an icon in the Notification tray for the Human Interface Devices), but (Pete and) I would try resetting or updating the drivers.

If you have the original drivers or updated drivers available, feel free to uninstall. I doubt they will fix themselves.

Matt

 

touchpad buttons

Wireless mouse works good

I should add that there is nothing physically stopping me from depressing the touchpad buttons. The problem is the response, or the lack of, when you depress them.

 

Matt, the first thing I did was to see if there were any updated drivers - I did remove them from Device Manager and reinstall them. I did not load the wireless mouse drivers. XP had its own.