Windows 10: Enable or Disable Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad in Windows

How to: Enable or Disable Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad in Windows

How to Enable or Disable Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad in Windows 10


If your Windows 10 PC (ex: laptop) has a built-in touchpad, you may want to enable or disable on demand.

The TouchPad Disable Zone feature allows you to enable or disable the touchpad by double tapping on the corner zone (top left) of the touchpad.

If the touchpad is enabled, you can double tap on the top left corner of the touchpad to disable it.

If the touchpad is disabled, you can double tap on the top left corner of the touchpad to enable it.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the TouchPad Disable Zone feature to double tap to enable or disable touchpad for your account in Windows 10.

The TouchPad Disable Zone settings will vary from one device and driver to another, so your settings may be different than in this tutorial.

If you have something different, then please post screenshots. I'll be happy to include it in the tutorial for others.



Contents

• Option One: Enable Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad
• Option Two: Disable Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad

OPTION ONE [/i] Enable Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad
1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2 Click/tap on Touchpad on the left side, and click/tap on the Additional settings link under Related settings on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 In the ClickPad Settings tab (name may vary), click/tap on the ClickPad Settings button. (see screenshot below)



4 Check Tapping to enable it if not already, and click/tap on the gear icon (settings). (see screenshot below)



5 Check Double Tap To Enable or Disable TouchPad, select (dot) either Switch TouchPad off for one session or Switch TouchPad off for what you want, and click/tap on Close. (see screenshots below)





6 Click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)








OPTION TWO [/i] Disable Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad
1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2 Click/tap on Touchpad on the left side, and click/tap on the Additional settings link under Related settings on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 In the ClickPad Settings tab (name may vary), click/tap on the ClickPad Settings button. (see screenshot below)



4 Click/tap on the gear icon (settings) for Tapping. (see screenshot below)



5 Uncheck Double Tap To Enable or Disable TouchPad, and click/tap on Close. (see screenshot below)



6 Click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn


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Disable Touchpad

Hi Janice

On most HP laptops, if you double tap the top left or top right corner of the touchpad, that will disable/enable the touchpad . . .

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Windows 10 how to Disable Generic external touchpad tap-to-click?

To disable the Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad feature, open the Touchpad tab in Mouse Properties.
Click Start , and then type mouse in the search field.
Click Change your mouse settings.
Click Additional mouse options.



Clicking on Additional mouse options
In Mouse Properties, click the Touchpad tab.
NOTE: Some HP Notebooks have an HP Control Zone tab. If your Notebook has this tab, open it and click HP Control Zone Disable.



Click Disable.
Clicking on Disable



Click Apply, and then click OK.

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f9 mousepad enable/disable not working since upgrade to windows 10

Thank you Sayan_Ghosh. Method 2 worked to disable the touchpad but I'll need to use the same several steps when I want to re-enable it. Windows key + W did nothing so I couldn't use that to get to the other steps you suggested for Method 1. I still
would love to have the function 9 key working again to be able to toggle back and forth enabling or disabling the touchpad more easily, but I rarely use the touchpad so this will do for now. Thanks again.

 

disable touchpad

Hi Donna,

Disabling touchpad will depend on the make and model of your Laptop. Some models would have its own button that would allow you to disable/enable the touchpad from the keyboard. Other models would also have settings from its own driver software that would
allow you to toggle it on/off. Since you've mentioned that your laptop is Dell, may we know the specific model?

However, if you have other pointing device to connect on your laptop (like a mouse), you can disable the touchpad through Windows settings by following these steps:

• On your keyboard, press Windows + I.
• Click Devices.
• Choose Touchpad.
• Uncheck Leave touchpad on when a mouse is connected.

After performing the steps above, your touchpad will be disabled until you disconnect the other pointing device.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Regards.

 

Can not enable/disable HP Laptop touchpad.

Can not enable/disable HP Laptop touchpad