Data Doctors' Ken Colburn has six laptop touchpad fixes for when it’s skipping, lagging, ignoring taps or randomly sending ...

If you use a laptop on a daily basis, you’ve probably encountered a testy touchpad at some point. Nothing enrages me more than being unable to use the mouse cursor on the screen. Sure, you can always ...

At CES 2026, Lenovo rolled out refreshed Yoga Aura Edition laptops. The idea is that the laptop figures out what you’re doing and quietly adjusts itself, instead of you constantly poking around in ...

The touchpad is an essential component of your Windows laptop, and it can be difficult to get much done if it suddenly stops working — especially if you're not familiar with common Windows keyboard ...

We've been demanding a tablet running webOS for years now, and it's taken HP's new stewardship of the software to guide just that onto store shelves. Palm's mobile platform always seemed to good to be ...

The touchpad’s switch on the keyboard might be switched OFF. The touchpad’s drivers might be obsolete. The settings of the touchpad might have changed. Please connect an external mouse to your system ...

Acer’s Swift 16 AI puts an extra-large haptic touchpad front and center, with MPP 2.5 stylus support for sketching and edits.

The touchpad or trackpad on a laptop keyboard is convenient to use when you're on the road or sitting in a tight space. Those tiny tables in coffee shops and airports don't leave a lot of room for a ...

Every modern laptop has a smooth square beneath the keyboard designed to help you navigate without a mouse. On a MacBook, it's called a trackpad; on a Windows PC, it's called a touchpad. But ...

The touchpad has been the standard laptop pointing device for years. Since touchpads are built into a laptop, they work well when you don’t want to carry around another pointing device. Even when a ...

Run the command cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep -i touchpad to see if the system recognizes your touchpad. If the output looks similar to the following, it indicates that the touchpad is recognized ...

is the senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal and author of the upcoming book I AM NOT A ROBOT: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. Palm faithful and newcomers alike, ...