Laptop Mouse problem

For a while now my left button on my laptops mousepad stopped working. I had to tap it really hard at times to get it to work and now its just a pain to use at all. I bought a wireless mouse to use untill this semester is over at school and I can have it sent to the shop and repaired. However I got infected by a trojan today and booted into safe mode and found that the mouse works perfectly in it. Normal (everyday) mode it doesn't work at all unless I really just "punch" it (not that i have).

Is this hardware, malware or something? I have no idea what to do and if this is something I can fix it would save me a ton of money.

Thanks!

 

If it works (touchpad, left mouse) in safe mode but not in normal mode, it points to a driver issue.
In safe mode, only minimal drivers are loaded. It appears something is conflicting.
While in safe mode, see what driver is used and write down the info. Then reboot into normal mode and compare.

 

I am not sure what you mean.. Do you want me to go through:
Right Click My Computer / Properties / Device Manager / Mouse / Right Click Properties / Driver Tab; and get the driver info off that and then do the same in normal boot mode and see if they are same thing?


Windows 7 64bit Home Edition

 

Actually since it is the touchpad, look at that rather than mouse.

What brand and model laptop so I can see what touchpad is used and perhaps the driver that should be installed.

 

Toshiba Satelite P750

In safe mode it works perfect, it just will not let me use the left mouse button on the mouse pad without actually pounding it with my finger. Its driving me nuts! I checked the Synaptics Touchpad Driver in both safe and normal, and both were the same. I think...

 

Here's a thread from the Toshiba forum on the same left click problem. perhaps it is you posting? http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=66982
I don't recommend downloading a driver from the Synaptic link. On the Synaptic page they say go to the OEM site. In your case, Toshiba.

I'm here http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp
but there are 15 different P750 models so I'm stalled on trying to find the correct synaptic touchpad driver.

First model uses this driver Synaptics TouchPad Driver(v15.2.11.1; 02-08-2011; 38.79M)

You can start here http://pc-support.toshiba-europe.com/drivers/
select your country, then put in your exact model of P750 and download the driver.
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Stumbled into the proper page
http://www.drivertoshiba.com/satellite-drivers/toshiba-satellite-p750-windows-7-drivers.html

 

Thanks for the work ..

I will look into that forum and I will figure out what my actual "full" model number is..

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Model Name: Satellite P750
Product Category: Portable
Model-Part Number: PSAY3U-08N01H

If that helps any.