Why does my touchpad quit working.

[Microsoft Windows]

My touchpad stops working on its own. I'll be moving the cursor arrow around in a game, wordpad document or just selecting icons on the desktop and it will quit. When it quits, I can still use my touch screen or a wireless mouse, but nothing brings the touchpad back until I restart the laptop. Then the touchpad works fine until it goes dumb again. I've tried logging the dates and times in a Notepad file and the going through the Event Log files to see if anything corresponds to those logged times, but those logs are quite extensive and I've not found one that matches my logs.I've tried loading

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