My Crummy Laptop Is Dying

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Go to the "Start" button and click it. When the menu pops up, look on the right of the menu for "Control Panel". Open that. Then look on the list for "Mouse", and double click that. You will get a popup with a slider button to control your mouse speed. If it's too fast, slide the indicator to the left. Try the mouse out, and adjust it until you get the speed you like. If a new driver was installed, it may be adjusted all the way to the right, which is way too damned fast for us mere mortals to use.

It was ignoring mouse functions before, off and on, but now it is doing it all the time. I am so frustrated with the darn thing. 

Which sounds like a driver issue, which is why I think a new driver was installed for the mouse. Probably the touch screen, too. I don't use touch screens, so I'm no help there, but look around in Control Panel for "Display" or "Screen", or the name of your video card (mine is Nvidia), and you may find adjustments for that, too, or a button to click to turn touchscreen functions on/off, or something like that. Another option may be to right click on your desktop and select "Display" from the bottom of the popup list. You may find controls for it there.

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Thank you for your advice. I did what you said, but a got an error message:
Control Panel Extension Incompatible With Driver Version

My laptop is so old that it is dropping screws, and the top won't close any more. I just restored the old version, and at least the mouse and the touch screen is working again.

I will keep fighting with it until it just goes dark or dies. I think it is time for me to check my brothers cast offs. He has usually has an old computer or two in the lot. That is where I got this one.