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by sbania

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I have a VAIO VGN-SZ55SN with Vista. The touchpad is sensing opposite direction. When I move down my finger on touchpad, the cursor goes up on screen & vice versa. But, when I use USB external mouse, it works correctly. Please help me to solve the problem. I look forward to receiving suggestion.

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by thumbsup2

If so, send it in for warranty repair. The touchpad was installed up-side-down! ;)

If it's not new, can you tell us if the problem has always been there, or did it just recently start doing this?

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by sbania

Recently, it has started to malfunction.
Any suggestion?

by oh smeg

And reset to Default.

The most likely thing here is that it has been altered and reversed in one plane for this to happen.

Col

by sbania

I did reset to default in Touchpad properties, still the problem is same.
I doubt, this is manufacture defect.

by older mycroft

Where , for a mouse, moving the mouse forwards should tilt your charters head down towards the ground, pulling the mouse backwards should tilt your characters head to the sky.

This arrangement would equate to what you are experiencing on your touchpad.

Has this laptop been used for playing any First Person Shooter games?

by oh smeg

Something changing the Touch Pad Proprieties if it worked correctly previously. This is a fairly common occurrence where the Touch Pad gets inverted in the Up & Down Plane.

It can be related to some Graphics Programs where you use the Mouse or Touch pad to draw with or maybe something to do with Hot Keys. Games are just the most common thing to cause this but by no means the only thing that can.

Did this ever work correctly previously? If so what was changed just before it started working this way?

Col

by sbania

Previously it use to work correctly. I never played any game on this laptop.

Recently, it started to work oppositely.

Any suggestion?

Sailesh

by thumbsup2

As Oh Smeg stated, there are a LOT of things that could change this behavior, not just games.... If it used to work and now it does not, what happened just prior to it not working?

So, what changed?

by sbania

I have no idea how did it start stop working.

It just happened suddenly.

by oh smeg

Look at what has been installed recently before the problem started.

The issue will be there. Other than going into the Touch Pad Proprieties and reset the Touch pad to something different to Invert it there is nothing else possible.

Col

by sbania

I don't remember what I installed before the problem started.

I've no idea what to be done.

by older mycroft

If you've got it enabled, System Restore should have restore points that it created whenever you ran an installation.

Other than that, I fail to see what any of us can do. Not if you can't remember what you've done to the operating system. ;)

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