Two finger scrolling and Finder View

Tried scrolling through applications list in finder and discovered two finger scrolling doesn't work on my daighters new MacBook. Also cannot 'auto arrange' icons as this is greyed out ?
Any ideas ?

the trackpad pane sounds very odd... I would go to apple about that one. you could also try setting up another account on the macbook, just to see if it is a software or hardware problem.
the finder view option I was talking about is actually under view> show view options or hit command + j. if you go into that, there is a 'keep arranged by' drop down menu that is different from the 'arrange by' under just the view menu. 'arrange by' is greyed out for me as well.

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