Macbook air gesture tap-click wont work

I have a macbook air OS X 10.8.5, the gesture tap-click, secondary click and 3 finger drag wont work after I restarted the macbook.. Anyone knows how to fix this??

Well, It seems your track pad is working, I would restart the machine again, and see if the tap gesture will work. Sometimes I have trouble with the tap gesture, because I have to use the center of the pad of my finger; if I hit the track pad the wrong way, the gesture does not register. I gave an older machine to my Aunt, and she has problems with the tap gestures also, but I know the track pad works, because it was my machine.
If you can't resolve the issue, take the machine back to the Apple store.

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