Windows 10: Can't scroll or zoom on touchpad

Out of nowhere I lost the ability to scroll up/down and zoom in/out on my laptop. It's a brand new lenovo yoga 6 with Windows 10 installed. The pointer moves but the two-finger controls are completely non-functional, all it will do is move in one direction or another across the screen. I've tried restarting, turning various touchpad settings on/off, updating drivers, updating the machine, disabling and re-enabling drivers, and uninstalling drivers and then restarting, absolutely nothing so far. I'm extremely frustrated and I'm not a very tech-y person so I have no idea what else to try or why

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Tablet mode Scroll Often Zooms

Hi Mark,

Are you using the touchpad to scroll? Could it be that the Pinch Zoom feature is enabled? To check, follow these steps:

1. Press Start button on the keyboard, type Touchpad settings and select the top most search result.
2. Scroll down until you find the Pinch to zoom option.
3. Uncheck the box next to Pinch to zoom.
4. Close the window and check if the changes are effective.

Let me know how it turns out.

 

Tablet mode Scroll Often Zooms

Interesting except I'm using the surface of the tablet itself to Scroll.

I've not coded on Windows in over 10 yrs, here's what I guess is going on:

- Windows interprets my one fingered slow drag as a pinch

- The apps DrawBoard and Edge Interpret a pinch as a zoom

So I'm guessing the bug is a windows problem. I checked both DrawBoard and Edge - there is nothing around zooming for me to disable.

 

Disable zoom in/out during inertial scrolling

I'm experiencing an annoying issue with scrolling on a touchpad on Windows10 in any browser:

When I scroll the page and stop touching the touchpad it keeps scrolling and slowly stops like there is an inertia effect. But if I press Ctrl while it's doing this the page will zoom in or out (depends on the scroll direction). And I hate this.

Is there a way to either disable the inertia or disable zooming with scroll/mouse wheel? There is NO such option in my touchpad settings. I have ASUS Smart Gesture installed.

Please don't suggest to uninstall touchpad drivers and let Windows install its own because without ASUS's drivers two finger scroll does not work at all. I'm looking for a way to disable zooming with scroll, not the entire scrolling feature of the touchpad.