Windows 10: Dragging with right click gesture for touchpad using windows precision drivers

I am using a normal laptop with standard touchpad with windows precision drivers.


Today, most of the laptop touchpad use windows precision drivers, and are mostly gesture controlled. While we have many features like zooming in and out, rotating clock and anti clock wise and three fingers and four fingers gestures like swiping and tapping, certain of the core functionality appears to be absent. Just because very few people use it doesn't mean that feature is not important.


The features are dragging with right click and middle click. There are many applications, and windows interface features that support dragging with right click, and some applications including many games that support middle click and drag, and used as a separate functionality. With those features absent in your touchpad drivers, and without a mouse laying around nearby, you are left completely incapable to perform those actions in your laptop.


Dragging with right click is very easy if you are using mouse, you just right click and hold, and start moving cursor. But for touchpad based systems, whole touchpad is a click button, it is very tedious to click on the right bottom corner, and keep pressing while moving cursor to perform the action.


For left and right click, we use one finger tap and two finger tap gesture respectively. And for left click drag, we double one finger tap and drag or in other words, we perform left click gesture and move the cursor within very short time of left click with one finger tap, in order to drag with left click.


What seems to be absent is the same feature dragging with right click and even middle click.


Now, I would like to present the solution, that I think some of the people have already come up with. I think, in order to be able to perform dragging with right click in touchpad with gesture, the gesture should be two finger tap immediately followed by moving the cursor using a single finger. Similarly for dragging with middle click, three finger tap immediately followed by moving the cursor using a single finger could also be applied.


Now if there is some problem while applying this, then single finger movement after the respective taps, can be replaced by sliding on the touchpad with same number of fingers that is used for tapping.


I know this absence is felt by many people and are waiting for a similar solution to this. I hope someone that is capable of solving this at Microsoft reads this discussion and solve this problem. Hope for the best.

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Click and Drag using Touchpad Win 10 without separate Left Key

Hi Mike,

Your touchpad should be able to support click and drag, scroll, and other touchpad gestures. If you're unable to that, then verify if you have a precision touchpad. Just go to
Settings > Devices > Mouse & Touchpad. It should say Your PC has a precision touchpad under
Touchpad.

Below are some of the gestures it should support:

• Select an item by tapping on the touchpad.
• Scroll by placing two fingers on the touchpad and slide vertically or horizontally.
• Do a right-click by tapping the touchpad with two fingers.
• Drag an open window by double-tapping and dragging from the title bar.

In case you're still unable to click and drag or do other touchpad gestures, then we suggest that you get in touch with your computer manufacturer so they can further check on the case.

Update us on how it goes.

Regards.

 

Does Windows Precision Driver for touchpads support right click and hold

Hi WitherZiby,

My name is Erik. I'm an Independent Advisor.

Kindly check these details.

Check if your device supports Precision Touchpad

-Open Settings.

-Click on Devices.

-Click on Touchpad.

*Under "Touchpad," it should read: "Your PC has a precision touchpad."

Alternatively, if your device doesn't include support for Precision Touchpads, you can use this workaround to replace the current trackpad driver with the Microsoft driver for laptops that use Synaptics or Elan drivers.

-How to enable (or disable) Precision Touchpad

Open Settings.

Click on Devices.

Click on Touchpad.

Turn on (or off) the Touchpad toggle switch.

-How to customize taps with Precision Touchpad

Open Settings.

Click on Devices.

Click on Touchpad.

Under the "Taps" section, use the Touchpad sensitivity drop-down menu to adjust the sensitivity level of the touchpad. Options available, include:

Most sensitive.

High sensitive.

Medium sensitivity (default and optimal).

Low sensitive.

Select the tap gestures that you want to use on Windows 10. Options available include:

*Tap with a single finger to single-click.

*Tap with two fingers to right-click.

*Tap twice and drag to multi-select.

*Press the lower right corner of the touchpad to right-click.

How to customize scroll and zoom with Precision Touchpad

Open Settings.

Click on Devices.

Click on Touchpad.

Use the "Scrolling direction" drop-down menu to change the scrolling gestures. Options available include:

-Down motion scrolls up.

-Down motion scrolls down.

How to customize three-finger (or four-finger) gestures with Precision Touchpad

Open Settings.

Click on Devices.

Click on Touchpad.

Under the "Three-finger gestures" section, you can use the Swipes drop-down menu to customize gestures using three fingers. The available options are:

*Nothing: Turns off three-finger gestures on Windows 10.

*Switch apps and show desktop: Enables three-finger swipe up to open Task View, down to show the desktop, and left and right to switch between apps.

*Switch desktop and show desktop: Enables three-finger swipe up to open Task View, down to show the desktop, and swipe left and right to switch between virtual desktops.

*Change audio and volume: Allows you to swipe up to turn the system volume up, down to turn the volume down, and left and right to skip to the previous or next song using a music app.

*Custom: Turns on the custom gestures configured in the advanced settings page.

Use the Taps drop-down menu to customize the three-finger tapping action. Options available, include:

Nothing.

Share with Cortana.

Action Center.

Play/pause.

Middle mouse button.

Please let me know if you have any further concerns.

Regards,

Erik

Independent Advisor

 

Windows 10 Precision Touchpad 2 Finger Click & Drag

My Dell XPS 13 has a precision touchpad, or in other words, only offers the settings within Start>Settings>...

With a mouse, I often use a right click and drag gesture to access a context menu specific to dragging selected objects from one place to another. In the past, on a touchpad, I have used a 2 finger click (AKA right click) and drag to achieve the same goal
as mentioned with the mouse.

I have read and understand the available settings for configuring a touchpad within Windows 10. I have set them as they should be:

Gesture Settings:

Allow taps...: Off

Press... lower-right...: Off

Dbl-tap and drag: Off

2-Finger tap right click: Off

2-Finger scroll...: On

2-Finger pinch...: On

Is the gesture that I want unavailable?

Thanks.