Hi Penny,
The issue with the touchpad might happen due to incompatibility issues for the touchpad driver. If you have not installed the latest driver for Windows 8.1, you might find such scenarios while using the touchpad.
1) What is the Model of the Lenovo Yoga laptop?
2) Did you download the latest touchpad driver by referring to the Lenovo website? Are they available for Windows 8.1?
If they are not for Windows 8.1, then, install the latest available driver in Windows compatibility and see if it works. Follow the methods:
Method 1:
Follow the steps to update the driver using the previous version of drivers for the touchpad:
a) Press Windows and X key together and select Device Manager.
b) Locate the Mice and other pointing devices/Touchpad device icon. Right click on the driver icon.
c) Select Update driver software.
c) Select “Browse my computer for a driver software”.
d) Select “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”.
e) Select the Touchpad driver from the list of the drivers according your device model and installed.
f) If this does not work, follow the steps from ‘a’ to ‘c’ and select “Search automatically for the updated driver”.
Check if this fixes the issue. If not, proceed to the next method.
Method 2:
Refer to the link and enter the name of the laptop inside the search box to find the latest available drivers for the laptop:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_IN/downloads/default.page?#
If you have latest drivers for Windows 8.1, you can download the latest versions, uninstall the current versions and then install the latest versions. Otherwise, download the latest drivers and proceed further.
If they are not available for Windows 8.1, follow the steps
Note: Before uninstalling the touchpad driver currently installed, please make sure that you have downloaded the latest driver for the touchpad device.
a) Press Windows and X key on your desktop and click on Device Manager.
b) Expand ‘Mouse and other pointing device’.
c) Locate the
Touchpad driver.
d) Right-click on the driver icon and click on
Uninstall.
e) Locate the folder which contains the setup file for the latest driver that you have downloaded.
f) Right click on the setup file and click on
Properties.
g) Go to compatibility
tab and check the box which states “Run the program in compatibility mode for”.
h) Select Windows
form the drop down list.(The previous version on which the touchpad worked or the version for which the drivers are available)
i) Click on
OK.
j) Follow the onscreen instruction to install the driver in compatibility mode.
For reference, you can refer to the link:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/older-programs-compatible-version-windows
Please get back to us with the results.
