mouse pad click doesn't always work

tnks2hp

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Jul 12, 2013
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I have a low end HP Pavilion g6 laptop that is not always responding to the mouse clicks on the touch pad. Tapping doesn't work during those times either. But sometimes I can refresh the page and it starts to work, but more often when I click on a link, I can see that the clicker did click on the link but it doesn't actually "take".
I haven't tried an external mouse yet. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can fix this?