Can't switch from one window to another, at times, without completely shutting down whatever It's now a bit like using, oh, maybe Windows 95. I no longer recall what was done to fix this problem originally probably had my computer guru do it for me.īut now M$ did some updates to Windows 8 on August 12 that messed up the Yoga's touchpad, among MANY other features.
#BOX DRIVE FOR WINDOWS CONTROL PANEL SOFTWARE#
Some vital operating piece of software and I have to try to fix it myself. If there is a support line available that can walk me through the main.cpl suggestion, I may try it, but I would spend a lot more than 2 hours trying to get up and running again if it doesn't work - or, worse yet, toasts The bad news is that it apparently isn't a Windows 8 touchpad, because it doesn't have the gestures.Īnd I have burned up 2 hours on what is only a partial fix. So, the good news is I once again have a right click available.
#BOX DRIVE FOR WINDOWS CONTROL PANEL DRIVER#
I now have, I guess, a generic touchpad driver instead of the synaptics one. (at her direction, after doublechecking that the driver was, indeed, gone from my list of programs), it said the mouse driver installation had failed. The reinstall didn't totally work it told me to uninstall the driver I had already uninstalled when I proceeded She had me uninstall the driver for the synaptics touchpad, then reinstall.
Meanwhile, I called Lenovo and spent 2 hours with their support person. mui in the name), so I'm guessing it is used a fair amount for something. Just doing a File Explorer search (not in Safe mode), I came up with 8 main.cpl files (4 of which are followedīy a. I'm a little reluctant to try this without a support person on the line to walk me through it and help me recover from anything that goes wrong. go to C:\Windows\System32 and In the Search for files or folders named box, type:.Alas, I have not yet succeeded in fixing the mouse problem once I'm in there, so I suspect the incompatibility IS the problem. Then it lets me into the dialogue to play with the mouse settings. When I go to the control panel and access the mouse settings, it starts out with a box saying "control panel extension is incompatible I am having trouble with the mouse in my 2-month-old Windows 8 computer (Lenovo Yoga 13).