X240 touch pad issue and keyboard backlight

Hello all,
After last touchpad updates (Synaptics UltraNav Driver 7/8/8.1 ver. 18.0.7.57) my track point died (red dot middle of letters GBH) and I could select which parts of my touchpad/trackpoint I want to use. Because I have a mouse I usually dont use touchpad and if I'm on the road and I dont have mouse with me I use track point. I want to turn of touchpad because its really annoying to type anything cos my hand touched the pad and mouse makes mistake clicks. Now, If I want to disable my touch pad I need to make it from BIOS and still.. I cannot activate my trackpoint.
Another think that I also realize that my keyboard backlight is also dead no matter how much i tried to press fn+space nothing happened.
Did anyone else noticed this type of problems?

I had a few problems with the new update as well. I unistalled the driver and downgraded to the version before (16.2.19.14) and everything is back to normal. 

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