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    Aspire 5920 touchpad/OS issue

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Altania, Feb 1, 2010.

  1. Altania

    Altania Newbie

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    Ok, my laptop all of a sudden had massive disc errors and so my best friend's mother wiped the harddrive for me. My laptop did not come with a recovery disc, which is silly cause I paid for that but anyway. Because she wiped it she put her laptops version of vista on there. Because it's not an acer lap top, I don't have any programs to work my webcam, but the biggest issue is that the touch pad will not work. Through control panel>hardware and sound>mouse there is no tab or anything for my touch pad since the OS isn't based around Acer. FN+f7 does not work because of this. Am I better off buying the vista OS from Acer or is there something free I can do to solve this problem?

    I prefer the touchpad to a mouse.
     
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  2. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Just download drivers and relevant applications (for your model) from Acer website- especially touchpad driver and Launch Manager
     
    downloads, Feb 1, 2010
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    xps400mediacenter Notebook Consultant

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    xps400mediacenter, Feb 1, 2010
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