Thanks Sam, Interestingly, I went into system preferences and unchecked the tap to click option, but once I did that I had a nightmare trying to get anything to work and have no idea really how I got the tick back in the box, I have not dared go there since :-)
Steve. On 31 Mar 2014, at 21:33, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Steve Sounds like the trackpad button could be broken, or the Trackpad settings in System Preferences need adjusting. I'd try the latter first. Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] www.macambulance.co.uk MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. On 31 Mar 2014, at 21:30, Davies Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > My wife's 4 year old laptop has started behaving strangely in terms of the > trackpad. > It used to perform like the stand alone trackpad I use with my iMac, in as > much as I can click to initiate action, drag items, and highlight text. > We upgraded to Mavericks about 6 weeks ago and all has been well, until the > last couple of days, I am not suggesting the root cause is Mavericks, but as > this was the last significant change made, I do suspect it. > > Currently, the trackpad will only respond to a "tap" not a click, it wont > drag and it wont highlight text. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Steve. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
