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Gateway touchpad

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The touchpad on my new Gateway NV57H50u is unusable (and,
bought refurbished from a reseller, Gateway will not support it.
After 5 minutes running, the touchpad repeats uncontrollably,
e.g. loads 4 to 40 copies of any app.  I have got quite skilled
at closing these via keyboard only (e.g. Thunderbird by Alt V + C)
but after 10 minutes running (overheating?) I can no longer
Control-Alt-Del to get the Task Manager:  it reboots instead
(and can hang for minutes on WELCOME because of
spurious entries into the password field.)

The same effect occurs with and without the Synaptics driver's
newest download. The laptop runs fine with a USB mouse, but I
should like to use the touchpad e.g. when the laptop is on my lap.
Any bright ideas?   (Anywhere else to look for solutions?)

-- 
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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Gateway touchpad "Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> - 2012-07-24 23:05 -0400
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