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Synaptics' TouchPad device drivers are customized and supported by notebook manufacturers to meet specific driver requirements for their individual products. To ensure the appropriate driver for your device, always use the driver your specific notebook OEM supports.
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What are precision touchpads? Precision touchpads are more accurate, sensitive and offer more touchpad gestures when compared to standard touchpads. Precision touchpads were first introduced with Windows 8 laptops and can be seen in most of the laptops available today.
If your Windows 10 laptop is equipped with a precision touchpad, you will see precision touchpad settings under Settings > Devices > Touchpad. But what if your laptop doesn’t have precision touchpad?
Luckily, it turns out that standard Synaptics or Elan touchpads found in most laptops meet precision touchpad requirements. So, you can enable precision touchpad on your Windows 10 laptop by just installing a precision touchpad driver.
If your laptop doesn’t support precision touchpad officially, then your laptop manufacturer likely has not released precision touchpad driver for your laptop model. So, you need to install Synaptics or Elan precious touchpad driver to enable precision touchpad on your Windows 10 laptop.
Complete the given below directions to install the precision touchpad driver on any Windows 10 laptop and enable precision touchpad.
Install precision touchpad driver and enable precision touchpad
Step 1: First of all, check if your laptop has Synaptics or Elan touchpad. To do that, type main.cpl in the Run command box, press Enter key to open Mouse properties and then click Advanced settings button to see if your laptop is equipped with Elan or Synaptics touchpad.
Step 2: Download Synaptics or Elan precision touchpad drivers from either Lenovo or Softpedia.
These precision touchpad drivers support most of the laptop manufacturers out there. So, whether you are using Dell, Lenovo, HP, Toshiba, Acer or any other laptop, these drivers will most likely work on your PC.
Step 3: Extract the downloaded zip file to get a folder containing precision touchpad drivers. Save that folder on your desktop for easy access.
Step 4: Open Device Management. To do so, right-click on the Start button on the taskbar and then click Device Manager to open the same.
Step 5: In the Device Manager, expand Mice and other pointing devices. Right-click on Synaptics Pointing Device entry and then click Update driver option to open Update drive wizard.
Step 6: Click Browse my computer for driver software link. This option will help you install the downloaded precision touchpad driver.
Step 7: Next, click Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer link.
Step 8: As you can see, the Update Drivers wizard will now display a list of compatible devices now. Click Have Disk button.
Step 9: You will now see Install From Disk dialog. Click the Browse button to browse to the precision touchpad driver that you downloaded and select Autorun.inf file present in the root of the folder.
Click Open button and then click OK button.
Step 10: Click Next button. Click Yes button when you see the confirmation dialog. Windows 10 will begin installing the precision touchpad driver.
Step 11: Once the precision touchpad driver is installed, you will see “Windows has successfully updated your drivers” message. That’s it!
Save your work, close all running applications and then reboot your PC once.
Step 12: After the reboot, open the Settings app, navigate to Devices > Touchpad to see all precision touchpad settings. Here, you can change precision touchpad settings.
Hope you find this guide helpful!
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Two of our readers recently reported about touchpad issues that they have been experiencing after upgrading to Windows 10. One user is unable to activate and use touchpad gestures after upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, while the touchpad itself is not working for the other user.
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In this article, we will discuss all the ways out there to overcome touchpad issues in Windows 10.
Method 1 of 7
Restart your PC
This might sound stupid but many of the Windows issues simply vanish after a reboot. So restart your Windows 10 PC once, and then check if the touchpad is working.
And if you’re wondering how to restart a notebook with dead touchpad, simultaneously press Windows logo and X keys to open the power user menu, press U key on the keyboard, and then press R key to perform a restart.
Method 2 of 7
Check touchpad settings, and turn on the hotkey
Some laptops include a dedicated hotkey on the keyboard to turn on or off the touchpad. Make sure that the touchpad is not turned off using the hotkey.
Check touchpad settings
Did you know that most touchpad drivers offer an option to turn off or disable the touchpad. For instance, for my Synaptics touchpad on ThinkPad T450s, there is an option under Mouse properties to turn off the touchpad as well as trackpoint.
You can open Mouse properties by typing Main.cpl in Start menu search box and then press Enter key. For some notebooks or touchpads, the option to turn on or off the touchpad might be located under Touchpad Control Panel (for instance, Synaptics Control Panel).
Please also double-check if there is a physical switch to turn off the touchpad.
Method 3 of 7
Make sure that the touchpad driver is installed
Although some touchpads will work out of the box without requiring additional drivers, if the touchpad or touchpad gestures are not working, please make sure that the latest version of touchpad driver is installed on your Windows 10 notebook. To do so, first check the current version of the driver installed on your Windows 10 PC and then visit the manufacturer’s website to check the version number.
Visit your laptop manufacturer’s website, download and install the Windows 10 compatible driver. If your notebook’s manufacturer is not offering touchpad driver for Windows 10, try to download and install Windows 8.1 compatible drivers. And to
Method 4 of 7
Reinstall the driver
If the touchpad is not working and you are sure that the newest version of the driver is installed (see how to check the driver version), try reinstalling the driver. To do so you need to uninstall the current driver first, download the newest version of the driver, and then install the new one.
Method 5 of 7
Roll back the driver
Many users often experience issues after updating to a newer version of the touchpad driver. If you recently updated the driver to the latest version (or drive is automatically updated by Windows 10) and the touchpad stopped working or not functioning since then, you can roll back to the previous version of the driver. Please refer to our how to roll back to the previous version of a driver for step-by-step directions.
Method 6 of 7
Restore Windows 10 to a previous date
If the touchpad was working great a couple of days ago and you are not sure what went wrong, you can use the Restore point feature to restore your PC to a previous date. Please refer to our how to restore your Windows 10 PC to a previous date guide for step-by-step instructions.
Method 7 of 7
Check if auto turn off is enabled
If you have connected a mouse to the laptop, please disconnect the mouse and then check if the touchpad or trackpad works because it’s possible to configure Windows 10 automatically turn off the touchpad when a mouse is connected. Please refer to our how to automatically turn off the touchpad when a mouse is connected article for detailed information.
If above methods are not working for you, have a chat with Microsoft support using the built-in Contact support app for free.
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