loptoolbox.blogg.se - Elan touchpad driver windows 7 not working

Rather than continuing your quest, you should just buy an external mouse, either USB, wireless, or Bluetooth. Perhaps Lenovo has installed a newer model of Elan touchpad that doesn't work with the older drivers.Īs you have probably seen when you've searched for a Windows 7 driver, you are not the only one who can't find a Windows 7 driver for this touchpad. However, if you have already tried about 20 different drivers without success, It is possible, of course, that drivers for Elan touchpads installed on other computers that had Windows 7 might work for your computer. The point is that Lenovo designed this computer for Windows 10 and there are apparently no drivers for the touchpad for older operating systems. Whether you purchased your Ideapad with or without an operating system isn't really the point. That the "Details" (פרטים) tab indicates that it's an Elan device. I did see your screenshots with your post in the Lenovo forum, but they don't really add to your explanation: "The drivers for this device are not installed. LemP Volunteer Moderator MS MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) 2006-2009 Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) 2011-2012Īs I mentioned earlier, "attached" screenshots do not display here.

These are readily available and not very expensive. The simplest solution that is guaranteed to work is to buy an external mouse, either USB, wireless, or Bluetooth.

Click Finish and then restart the computer.

Click the "Browse" button and navigate to the 圆4 folder that you extracted in step 1.

Click "Browse my computer for driver software".

If the "Driver" tab isn't already selected, select that tab and then click "Update Driver".

Open Device Manager, find the entry for the touchpad - this will likely show with a yellow warning icon.

Use an archiver tool such as 7-zip ( ) to extract the 圆4 folder.

If running that Dell download in the normal way doesn't work, you can attempt to bypass the Dell-specific portions of the package as follows (but there's no guarantee that this will work, either): If you've tried "about 20 different drivers," you've probably tried this one already - but there's no guarantee that it will work, because it's for a Dell Vostro rather than a Lenovo computer: The forum software only permits images to be added by using the "Insert Image" icon in the toolbar: This seems to be the case for the touchpad on the Lenovo Ideapad S145-15AST, which came with Windows 10 preinstalled. Computer and device manufacturers often don't supply drivers for older operating systems.