There’s good news and bad news on the HP Open webOS front today. HP is moving to create a new open source version of the operating system that currently powers its discontinued smartphones and tablets ...

Most laptops have a touchpad toggle key. The cursor often reappears immediately. A simple restart can fix many problems.

One of the market leaders in touchpads, Synaptics, last week ported its multi-touch, gesture-based touchpads to Linux. It promises that the touchpad software is compatible with these six distros: ...

Your Windows laptop touchpad can perform a number of different commands to help you navigate apps more easily. You can use three- or four-finger commands to see your desktop, switch between apps, open ...

My ZDNet blogging colleague James Kendrick has written an excellent piece for HP TouchPad owners on how to dramatically improve performance by using a WebOS community-supported software stack called ...

Touchpads have been a more portable alternative to mice since the 1980s, but the robustness, tactility, and reliability of a mouse are hard to beat. That said, touchpads have evolved well past their ...

The touchpad’s switch on the keyboard might be switched OFF. The touchpad’s drivers might be obsolete. The settings of the touchpad might have changed. Please connect an external mouse to your system ...

If Synaptics or any other TouchPad is not working after Sleep, BIOS Update, Connecting Mouse or Windows or Drive Update., and the gestures are not working on your Windows 11/10 laptop, then you can ...