PROBLEM: ACER TOUCHPAD NOT WORKING
This is a funny story. I have today upgraded Vista through Microsoft Upgrade. However, the required restart didn't work. I had to turn the laptop off as it was stuck in the "Logging Off" screen.
Everything turned out fine after restart, except -- The Synaptics TouchPad did not work. Neither the Pad to move the mouse pointer, nor the Left and Right Buttons.
Luckily I had the external Microsoft wireless mouse attached. The USB wireless mouse worked, so I was not impaired.
Tried rebooting to no avail. Looked for the new driver on manufacturer's website, uninstalled, installed again (it was the same version anyways), no change. Touchpad is still not working!
A quick search on the web revealed what the solution is:
SOLUTION FOR "ACER TOUCHPAD NOT WORKING" SOUGHT
It turns out that, while trying to restart laptop after the software upgrade, I was pushing various buttons that I knew not what they were for. In the top row of the keyboard. Such as turn off screen, the ZZZ button that put laptop to sleep (but after coming back still ended in the "logging off" mode). etc. One of the infamous buttons was the Fn-F7. That one's pic has something that looks like a hand over a square - the Touchpad. It's an on-off switch for the Touchpad! Who knew! I played with this only as the computer was shutting down. I did not need touchpad at that time to find out it was disabled. Funny.
SOLUTION FOR "ACER TOUCHPAD NOT WORKING" FOUND
So press Fn-F7 and your touchpad is back. Simple as that.
WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Did you have a similar problem? Where is the touchpad on/off button on your laptop? Leave me a comment, would you? Thanks!
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SOLVED: Computer Goes Back To Sleep After Wake Up
This post will show you how to prevent your computer from falling asleep too soon.
PROBLEM: COMPUTER FALLING ASLEEP TOO SOON AFTER WAKE UP
PROBLEM: COMPUTER GOES BACK TO SLEEP SOON AFTER WAKE UP
PROBLEM: COMPUTER FALLING ASLEEP TOO SOON AFTER WAKE UP
I've been telling you how I resolved the problem of Windows Vista not waking up from sleep or hibernate. Now that this problem is solved, I encountered another one: Laptop computer goes back to sleep soon after wake up or resume.
This only happens when I don't touch the keyboard after the computer is back up. It is annoying because resume from hibernate takes quite a while, maybe 2 minutes. I leave to get something else done while waiting. I come back and find computer has fallen back to sleep/hibernate again. I lost 5-10 minutes that way.
Others schedule their computer to awake at a certain time for a scheduled task. Their annoyance is that the computer goes back to sleep before the task is completed. I will show here how both problems are resolved. The same solution applies to both.
SOLUTION
It turns out (credit for reporting this goes to http://vista64.com) that Vista will fall back asleep or hibernate after a specified amount of time if not physically interacted with. Such as by typing or moving the mouse. This amount of time is set to 120 seconds or two minutes. The value is stored in registry.
If you are uncomfortable changing registry, please ask someone else or just keep in mind you need to be there within 2 minutes of Vista computer waking up and need to touch the keyboard.
HOW TO CHANGE THE TIME BEFORE COMPUTER FALLS ASLEEP
Here's how to change the appropriate key in the Registry: Click Start, then in the box on the bottom type regedit. If prompted by UAC, click Continue.
Registry editor comes up. Follow the tree: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0\DefaultPowerSchemeValues
In the left pane, click on the triangle to expand DefaultPowerSchemeValues into three subvalues. They correspond to Balanced, High Performance, and Power Saver options. To be safe, just change all three values, under both AC and DC values. So total of six. I changed from the default 120 seconds to 300 seconds. So long as I'm back in 5 minutes the computer won't fall back to sleep or hibernate.
If a scheduled program is waking computer up from sleep, make sure you set the value to longer than the maximum anticipated duration of the run of the scheduled program.
THIS SOLVED MY PROBLEM. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Have you found this solution workable, and useful? Are you now able to get back to your computer before it falls back into hibernate? Or, are the programs that are waking up your computer getting enough wake-up time to complete their jobs? Let me know either way, ok? Just click on the "Leave a Comment" link below!
PROBLEM: COMPUTER FALLING ASLEEP TOO SOON AFTER WAKE UP
PROBLEM: COMPUTER GOES BACK TO SLEEP SOON AFTER WAKE UP
PROBLEM: COMPUTER FALLING ASLEEP TOO SOON AFTER WAKE UP
I've been telling you how I resolved the problem of Windows Vista not waking up from sleep or hibernate. Now that this problem is solved, I encountered another one: Laptop computer goes back to sleep soon after wake up or resume.
This only happens when I don't touch the keyboard after the computer is back up. It is annoying because resume from hibernate takes quite a while, maybe 2 minutes. I leave to get something else done while waiting. I come back and find computer has fallen back to sleep/hibernate again. I lost 5-10 minutes that way.
Others schedule their computer to awake at a certain time for a scheduled task. Their annoyance is that the computer goes back to sleep before the task is completed. I will show here how both problems are resolved. The same solution applies to both.
SOLUTION
It turns out (credit for reporting this goes to http://vista64.com) that Vista will fall back asleep or hibernate after a specified amount of time if not physically interacted with. Such as by typing or moving the mouse. This amount of time is set to 120 seconds or two minutes. The value is stored in registry.
If you are uncomfortable changing registry, please ask someone else or just keep in mind you need to be there within 2 minutes of Vista computer waking up and need to touch the keyboard.
HOW TO CHANGE THE TIME BEFORE COMPUTER FALLS ASLEEP
Here's how to change the appropriate key in the Registry: Click Start, then in the box on the bottom type regedit. If prompted by UAC, click Continue.
Registry editor comes up. Follow the tree: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0\DefaultPowerSchemeValues
In the left pane, click on the triangle to expand DefaultPowerSchemeValues into three subvalues. They correspond to Balanced, High Performance, and Power Saver options. To be safe, just change all three values, under both AC and DC values. So total of six. I changed from the default 120 seconds to 300 seconds. So long as I'm back in 5 minutes the computer won't fall back to sleep or hibernate.
If a scheduled program is waking computer up from sleep, make sure you set the value to longer than the maximum anticipated duration of the run of the scheduled program.
THIS SOLVED MY PROBLEM. WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Have you found this solution workable, and useful? Are you now able to get back to your computer before it falls back into hibernate? Or, are the programs that are waking up your computer getting enough wake-up time to complete their jobs? Let me know either way, ok? Just click on the "Leave a Comment" link below!
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