Fixing USB problems

What can you do when your laptop, or mini notebook keyboard mouse pad or USB doesn't work? You can use a temporary external USB mouse or keyboard as a tool to get them operating smoothly again. The external USB mouse of keyboard will at lest let you type in the password to get past the lock screen accessing your computer's operating system as normal. Sometimes if both mouse and keyboard can be required will do the job.

Sometimes we can be frustrated with USB not working. Mechanical wear and tear on the electrical contacts can cause problems. Signs of scrap makings on the metal pin of the USB hardware often the start a habit of not working when first inserted. Then the habit of having to remove and replace to get going again becomes common place. Soon this becomes a habit and once got going seem relatively unstable.

We are all pleased USB connections respond fast and remain stable, always a welcome relief it is not the computer. Computer trouble shooting tools are useless at informing users the possibility of mechanical slots becoming dodgy because of poor electrical contact due to regular wear and tear.

USB pin not making electrical contact can be determined by looking at the pin of any brand new USB pin. Examining the pin of a new one is an good indication of what USB pins should be. Looking to your one you can observe what can be causing malfunction.

Using a new one as a model to work with, a flat head screw driver lever you can salvage the USB connection by adjusting the same as the new model is. Next bear in mind the the input connection of the socket in your computer.

Once again looking at the insides of a brand new input in a new computer compeering the difference can help determine things there as well.

A trick to get the USB device working, try moving slightly diagonally towards you. If that doesn't work try moving the opposite direction. Your operating system often registers the device.

Once you have normal accesses to your operating system with the external device you can gain accesses to the system preferences or control panel as normal setting the touch pad settings as normal.

There is an ease of access program in the system preferences of control panel designed for disability users that effects your touch pad and keyboard characteristics. If the ease of accesses settings have been tweaked with, can cause problems. The tick boxes are self explanatory helping you to determine what characteristics each one is about which can help determine what's turned on and what's turned off effecting your pad or keyboard operation.

Watch confusion with the temporary external keyboard resting on top of the original keyboard pressing on one of the keys underneath it. If you are not used to sticky key behavior has probably been twinkled with. If you observe a sticky key ticked and don't like the behavior you can turn it off by clicking out the tick,

Once set you can disconnect the external device, and your touch pad or on keyboard will operate as smooth as ice.