[Stratman250]

I have a Toshiba A100 PSAA8C-0FH00E laptop running XP SP2 and I can't seem to be able to fix it. A while ago my touchpad and keyboard stopped working, my system recognizes that the touchpad is there and it detects it every time I restart, but my attempts at reinstalling the driver have been cut short halfway through the installation where I am told that the installation can't continue because access is denied (i am system administrator & logged on as so).
I purchased BitDefender total security shortly after this occurred (was running AVG free before). I have also ran Avast, Malwarebytes, registry mechanic, regcure, and Hijack This since my purchase of BitDefender...they have picked up small things here and there but none have encountered and viruses/malware that were the culprit.
Anyone have a solution for me?

[flavallee]

Using Registry Mechanic and RegCure is going to cause you grief.

Stay completely away from registry cleaners. They're too aggressive and will detect valid registry entries as invalid. The end result from "fixing" them is some programs that no longer work and a damaged operating system.

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[Stratman250]

so far so good with the registry cleaners, my initial problems were present before i attempted to use the cleaners and i haven't had any new problems

[flavallee]

You've probably been lucky so far.

I'd still check all your programs and see if they still start and work properly.

There's been several horror stories in these forums of users having to do a hard drive format and fresh install of Windows because they used registry cleaners.

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