How to Repair a TouchPad, TrackPoint or External Notebook Mouse

How to repair a touchpad, trackpoint, trackball or external laptop mouse. Here is a collection of do-it-yourself instructions. If you have written a free repair guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

Acer TravelMate 800	Miscellaneous tips and tricks for selfmade notebook repairs, how to replace the touchpad (in German).
Apple MacBook	An origami solution to the squishy trackpad button problem. How to fix the trackpad with paper.
ASUS A4740KBP	How to integrate the receiver of an external cordless Logitech USB mouse and keyboard into the laptop case between the rear panel and GPU/chipset heatsink.
DELL Inspiron 8200	ALPS to Synaptics mod guide explaining a touchpad and trackstick conversion.
DELL Latitude C600	Fixing mouse drift with a sledgehammer.
IBM ThinkPad i1400	HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade, battery revival, membrane keyboard repairs, trackpoint transplant, adding USB ports and wireless LAN.
IBM ThinkPad X20	An illustrated Track-Point(tm) disassembly (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad N.N.	How to clean the Track-Point(tm) cap (in Korean).
TadPole SparcBook 3	Installing memory, disassembling and adding backlighting and repairing a broken mouse pointer, upgrading Microspeed Trackball.
Toshiba Libretto 50CT	A quick guide on how to install PS/2 mouse and keyboard connections to the standard port replicator.

See Repair4Mouse for repairing and modding guides for external computer mice.