haha! And here I was gonna say I couldn't knock Dell for longevity... I got a 20 yr old Inspiron that is still kicking along without any repairs what-so-ever. Admittedly it's only running 8-bit pixel games for my grandchildren so it's hardly doing any work but they're heavy handed so you kinda …

teehee... true ay 😜

I'm not sure which is more stupid.... thinking I did something stupid and troubleshooting every day for almost 2 weeks only to find out I didn't do anything stupid and it was the CMOS being dicky all along.... OR... actually doing something stupid :P OR... paying $20 to WinZip Driver Updater because …

Regarding using keyboard and touchpad at the same time: Usually this is intentional. The goal is that when you are typing for example in MS Word and you touch the touchpad accidentally the touch is ignored. You could have a look around in the mouse options in the Windows control panel. On the …

I realise how old this thread is but I found it through a crawler looking for help with a Synaptics touchpad so I thought to post my solution for any other victims of ASUS/Synaptics/MS shenanigans who also stumble across this thread. I have a decade-old ASUS K54C laptop and I did a fresh install of …

I quickly signed up just to say thanks for cheering me up! I was mad, frustrated and over-tired trying to figure out what stupid thing I had done to my lappy when I stumbled across this thread and proceeded to giggle my ass off :D Thanks for the memories peeps... particularly Errius! Way back when I …