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Cannot see mouse on windows 7 laptop

  • 04-02-2023 12:31am
    #1
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭


    Hi. today I bought a second hand laptop. It is a toshiba pro. But it's running windows 7.

    I was warned that it would be slow for the internet, but I still wanted to try it out.

    My reason for buying it, was to watch offline videos and play music, when I go on holidays, hopefully

    later in the year.

    When I got home, I connected an external mouse from my desktop computer which runs wiindows 10 to the laptop. It seemed to work. Now I'm not so sure. Note, the touchpad on the laptop had been working before. I opened up youtube. it asked me to sign in. But I had to find my google password.

    To do that, I had to disconnect the external mouse from laptop and put it back in desktop, so that i could open a file containg my passwords.

    That done. i started typing in my username on the laptop. But when I got to the @ symbol, the key on the kepad did not produce the desired result. So I desided to copy the sybol from a web page to the password page on youtube. The only problem was I couldn;t figure out how to select the symbol with the mousepad. So i decided to use the external mouse again. Only this time, the cursor did not appear on laptop screen. I disconnected mouse, and tried touchpad. But that is not working now either. ie, external mouse or touchpad show no cursor.



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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Is it still the same if you restart it?



  • #3
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭steve66


    Yes. i have tried that and various combinations. I'm not sure if there was one before. But there is no light on the mousepad.



  • #4
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭steve66


    Apologies. Computer is Windows 10. Label on back say 7. But system information 10.



  • #5
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,762 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    I'm guessing the keyboard is set to US by default, if you hold down Shift and 2 on the main keyboard is will produce the @ key.

    For the mouse issue have you tried plugging the mouse in to one of the other USB ports on the laptop? Do this after restarting.



  • #6
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭steve66


    Thank you very much. Shift 2 worked.

    Unfortunately, the laptop has only one USB port.

    I will try logging into youtube again.



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  • #7
    steve66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭steve66


    Got into youtube, thanks again.



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