Laptop, mini note book, keyboard, touch pads and USB not working

What can you do when your laptop. mini notebook keyboard or mouse pad is not working? You can use an external USB mouse or keyboard as tools to at lest accesses your computer. If the USB is not working see if the USB is not working sub title.

If one or the other is not working you won't need the other. If both you will need both the external mouse and keyboard. If you only need one item at lest the other on stand by as a precautionary insurance measure in case you end up do needing it too.

If you have one or the other working you can accesses your operating system password to accesses your operating system with it.

If the mouse only

Here you can accesses your operating system password and to accesses system preferences ( or control panel ) with the external USB mouse as normal. Accessing the control panel or system preferences look for mouse, and click to accesses the setting dialogue boxes. There are also ease of access settings that alters the behavior of the mouse to suit users taste.

Systematically read the tick box references to help determine the characteristics, which can help determine what's turned on and what's turned off that may be effecting the mouse pad.

If the keyboard only

Operating on the same principle as above with the external keyboard you can access your operating system password and to accesses system preferences ( or control panel ) and ease of access. A particular area to not is the sticky key settings.

Altering these doesn't harm any part of the computer only to alter the keyboard behavior to users taste  the behavior of the keyboard preferences using the working mouse pad as normal. Look for Keyboard, clicking to accesses the setting dialogue boxes.

Mind you don't get confused with the temporary external keyboard resting on top of the keyboard pressing on one of the keys underneath. If you have twinkled with ease of access settings the you may find the sticky key settings can confuse the situation.

Systematically analyze the tick box references to help determine the characteristics, which can help determine what's turned on and what's turned off and what needs to be on and what needs to be left off.

If both keyboard and mouse pad.

Operating on the same principles as above you can now access your operating system accessing the keyboard and mouse pad dialogue box settings from system preferences or control panel as normal to determine what are turned on or off effecting the mouse pad and keyboard.

If the USB is not working

USB memory sticks ( or flash drives if you like ) for the purpose of transfer or back up purposes there is a lot of wear and tear.  If flash drives get a lot of use they don't last for every. Signs on the way out start the habit of not working when we insert. We are often forced to remove and reinsert to get it going again. Soon this becomes a habit and once got working relatively unstable. Switching off and on.

Time tells. It soon becomes growing in frequency to a point of erratic and unstable to keep stable till finally won't work at all. If a known good or knew drive responds straight away and remains stable is always a welcome relief it is not the computer end. It is more likely the drive microprocessor has  finally gone.

Other sources

If  frequently Coffey lounges and fast food restaurants are food crumb environments. Eating and drinking with your laptop can potentially push crumb particles into the gaps of keyboard keys, and mouse pads and the ports of flash drives when inserting into USB effecting the rest of the computer.

If the computer end the inner contacts are likely be worn by constant inserting and pulling out by now. The inner contacts of either the mouse or keyboard end have probably reached a stage where the contacts have become a bit short for proper electrical contact.

If the early stages an effective way to get the USB working to at lest be able to get at the drive files use the external keyboard or mouse to gain access to your operating system and your files is to moisten the connecting tip with your tongue. When it works at lest the USB will be able to access your drive and computer's operating system.

Because of the wear and tear problem it may be an on going thing from now on always needing to moisten the tip of USB tips to get the USB to work. However if you are using an external keyboard across keyboard, from time to time lift it to make sure it's not just the bulk of the external board pressing on one of the keyboard keys of your computer.

Sipping at drinks the potential of reaching across the keyboard to sip, replacing the cup and eating is a paternal of spilling drips and dropping crumbs all over the mouse pad and keyboard keys. This should be a considered as a possible cause of your erratic mouse and keyboard erratic behavior problems of late.

There is always the potential risk of food and drink particles in the connections making it into USB ports, that and worn out slots and contacts. Sloppy drinking and eating habits over you computer drink drops can wet dry dust into a thin insulating film everywhere.

Shedding of of skin cells from your finger tips can get into is the gaps between the mouse pad, and keyboard keys not to mention between the grates of vents.

Inspect all vents found round the computer for trapped particles. Do not wipe down with a damp cloths or you will not be able to get at clearing the results of now a thin gunk between the vent bars. Professional workshop engineers us cans of compressed air to help blow out accumulated particles. A rather desperate and crude way is a bicycle pump or the free air at service stations used as a desperate compressed air substitute gamble will not harm your computer.

If dirty vents get damp you are in serious trouble, because it will be way out of  your reach to correct at home on your own. Laptops are notoriously built hard to work on.

They can be a nightmare. Inexperienced novas at home can easily render a good computer useless. Only workshop repair shop professionals who have done this sort of thing hundreds of thousands of times before experience with tools and spare part rersouse stripping down and reassembly experience may be the only recourse to clean up effected vents.