Locate the listing for your computer’s touchpad, right-click on it, click Check the hardware in the device settings and if the touchpad is disabled, enable it and restart the PC, and it is done! Another common reason for a breaking down of touchpad is corrupted documents. Next, from the dedicated Dell Touchpad section, change the Touchpad toggle from Off to On and hit the Save button. Many modern Windows laptops have Precision Touchpads. In order to use two finger scrolling I have to open up the control panel and open up the Mouse dialog box and then it'll work. Click it and a button resembling a touchpad will be added to the system tray. Right click on the Synaptics Pointing Device icon located on the taskbar. On a Dell laptop, there’s a “Dell Touchpad” tab. In addition, you can tell Windows to automatically disable touchpad if a mouse is connected to the notebook. In the 'Thinkpad' tab, you can check and uncheck to enable/disable either option. For example, on some Dell laptops, the setting to disable the touchpad is located in the Dell's support software.Some system have a separate key on the right of F12 key with a picture of a touchpad and X on it which enables and disables the touchpad.

To make syndaemon start up by default each time you login, add it to the list of Startup Programs in System->Preferences->Sessions.