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Why does the pointing stick on my HP laptop freeze up sometimes
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Khalid Anwar
On some HP laptops, there is a little nub between the G H and B keys which is called the pointing stick.
It behaves a bit like a mouse, and I actually find it very useful to open things like mouseovers, where you have to hover the cursor over a control to open up a menu or dialogue box.
However, occasionally this pointing stick freezes up which can be quite annoying, I don’t know if it’s a hardware issue or software because usually when I come back to thcomputer after while it will be resolved but I’m just curious to see if anyone else has experienced this. |
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Brian's Mail list account
Yes it used to afflict Dell computers as well. MY guess it is either hardware or a driver issue.
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I don't tend to use such things as they are too fiddly these days. Another annoyance was that you could turn them off and at some point they would come back on. It was only by uninstalling the actual driver that you could stop that. Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Khalid Anwar" <anwarkhalid850@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:23 AM Subject: [chat] Why does the pointing stick on my HP laptop freeze up sometimes On some HP laptops, there is a little nub between the G H and B keys which is called the pointing stick. It behaves a bit like a mouse, and I actually find it very useful to open things like mouseovers, where you have to hover the cursor over a control to open up a menu or dialogue box. However, occasionally this pointing stick freezes up which can be quite annoying, I don’t know if it’s a hardware issue or software because usually when I come back to thcomputer after while it will be resolved but I’m just curious to see if anyone else has experienced this. |
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 04:46 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote:
It was only by uninstalling the actual driver that you could stop that.- Just so it's on record for potential future readers, you can also disable the device in Device Manager and it should stay disabled until/unless you re-enable it. -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044 The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot co-exist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue. . . ~Bertrand Russell |
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Brian's Mail list account
Not so sure some of them share the same driver with those little touch pads as well, and I nearly always have to turn them off, but its been a while since I had an afflicted Dell. Might have been an update that turned them back on though. Very strange.
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Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Vogel" <britechguy@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [chat] Why does the pointing stick on my HP laptop freeze up sometimes On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 04:46 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote: - Just so it's on record for potential future readers, you can also disable the device in Device Manager and it should stay disabled until/unless you re-enable it. -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044 *The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot co-exist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue. . .* ~Bertrand Russell |
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