These days, so many Asus laptop users are complaining about the Touchpad not working.
When they try to move from one place to another through the Touchpad, they have to face the following problems.
- The Touchpad keeps lagging while moving from one place to another.
- Cursor points are not showing on the computer.
- Right-click is not working on an Asus laptop.
Specifically, the Touchpad is becoming unresponsive on Windows 10 and Windows 11 laptops. I can understand how frustrating it would be if you’re doing some work and the Touchpad stops working midway. But there is no need to worry much; you can quickly fix that problem with the help of the steps given in this article.
Why did my Asus laptop’s Touchpad stop working?
Generally, the Asus laptop touchpad stops working because of a few reasons like:
The Touchpad is disabled – You might have disabled the Touchpad from the windows accessibility center.
Asus Touchpad driver is not responsive – When touchpad drivers are corrupted, missing, or outdated. You won’t be able to use it.
The laptop is infected with the virus – When laptops are infected with viruses or malware. The Asus laptop will run slow. At such a point in time, Touchpad might not respond well.
Hardware is disabled from Bios- When touchpads are deactivated from the BIOS. It will stop working and show the features in the windows settings.
Windows requires an update- It doesn’t happen very often, but the Asus touchpad is sometimes not working due to the update issue. When the OS requires an important, some necessary hardware might stop working.
How do I fix my Asus laptop touchpad not working?
When the Asus laptop touchpad is not working correctly, you change the following settings in the bios and windows to make it functional again.
Enable the Touchpad from the keyboard-
Asus laptop comes up with the shortcut key to disable the Touchpad. So you won’t have any disturbance while typing from the laptop’s keyboard. Generally, this key is found on f6 or f9, which can vary according to your laptop’s model number.
So many times, Users have deactivated the Touchpad from the short keys by mistake. Due to this, the Touchpad stops working. So you need to make sure that you are not repeating the same mistakes.
- Power on the Asus laptop.
- Press the Fn + F6 or F9 button (where you see the touchpad disabled icon).
Turn on the Touchpad from windows accessibility center –
- Press Windows + X key simultaneously
- Click on the settings button.
- Now go to the accessibility option from the left menu.
- Scroll down and click on the mouse.
- Now press the mouse pointer.
- Scroll down and then click on the Touchpad.
- If the Touchpad is disabled, you need to turn it on.
Enable the mouse pointer-
When you can’t see the pointers on the Asus laptop, you need to enable it from the windows accessibility center. Here is the guide for that.
For Windows 11-
- Press the Windows + X key and click on the settings.
- Press the windows accessibility option from the left menu.
- Click on the mouse and then press the mouse pointer option.
- Now click on the touchpad option, and go to more touchpad settings.
- Click on the Pointers tab and then enable the pointer’s shadow.
For Windows 10-
- Go to the settings.
- Click on the devices.
- Now press the touchpad button.
- Press the enable button.
Update the touchpad driver-
- Open the run box.
- Type devmgmt.msc.
- Press the ok button.
- Expand human interface devices.
- Right-click on the touchpad driver, and click on the updated driver.
- Press the search automatically for drivers.
- Click on the finish button.
Reinstall the touchpad driver-
If you have already updated the touchpad driver, your Asus laptop touchpad driver is still not working. You need to uninstall the touchpad driver from the windows computer and then install a new driver. 
- Open the device manager again.
- Click on the human interface devices.
- Press the Uninstall button.
Once the drivers are removed from the Asus laptop, you need to reboot the computer. The windows will automatically install the suitable touchpad driver. If it doesn’t do so, you can go to the Asus support website. Now download and install the new driver on your computer.
Enable the Touchpad from the bios-
If you don’t find anything wrong with the windows settings, but the Asus touchpad is not working yet. You should check the BIOS settings. Most probably, you have disabled the interfaces from the bios settings. That’s why the Asus laptop touchpad is not responding.
- Let’s reboot the computer.
- Open the BIOS by pressing the F2 or Bios key.
- Go to the advanced settings.
- Select the internal pointing device and then press the disable button.
- Now press F10 to save changes.
Update the windows-
Sometimes, the Asus laptop touchpad stops working because of the windows update. The windows files might be corrupted, which need to be repaired to function the hardware interface properly.
- Open the settings.
- Click on the windows update and security. (in windows 11, you will see the windows update option).
- Press the check for update button.
- If you find any updates, you need to click on the Download and install button.
Remove the viruses-
Sometimes, the Asus touchpad is not functioning because of the virus/malware issue. So you should scan the computer and remove all types of viruses from the computer.
Reset the computer-
After trying the above steps, if your laptop is still not working properly, you need to factory reset the computer. But before doing that, you must take the back of your data. Otherwise, you will lose it.
- Restart the computer.
- Press the f8 button to open the advanced boot manager.
- Click on the advanced button.
- Now Click on the reset this pc button.
- Press the reset button.
After applying these techniques, your touch should be working fine now. In case if you are having some other issues with the Asus laptop, please leave a comment below. So we can come up with a solution for that problem.
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