Windows 10: How To Disable Tap-to-Click on Windows 10

Rick K, what did ASUS say? Is there a way to disable tap to click on ASUS yet? If not, what is the outlook. I have tried to adapt to the tap and click the last couple of months with no success. I need to disable it.

 

I went to ASUS Support Downloads and when prompted to enter my Model I entered G73SW. Once the window I clicked on "Drivers and tools" and then scrolled down to "Touchpad" and entered that My OS is Windows 7. Once I downloaded the Touchpad Utility I ran it and fount the Icon in the hidden icons at the right of the task bar. Click on the Touchpad icon and then uncheck "Tap to Click". Now restart the computer. Yes I am running Windows 10 on the laptop(a Toshiba Qosmio) and this allowed me to disable the Tap to Click.

 

My Toshiba with ELAN touchpad was not able to be configured to eliminate "tap click" and so no matter how you tried to set it up it would randomly (depending upon how my hands brushed across the touchpad) click on items. The last straw was when it caused me to purchase something on ebay.

In my driver there were lots of options, not just one to let you kill the tapping altogther. Thank you all knowing programmer who doesn't think I need full control of my machines features........

I tried all of the above solutions and many others until I found a simple answer. Use the REGEDIT function and just turn off the one finger click function.

Using the command line from the Start menu: type Regedit and then select the following

Hkey Current User
Software
Elantech
Smartpad
Tap one finger....change from 1 to 0 (1 is the default setting that enables the one finger tapping feature that can't be turned off thru the driver settings)

all done.....

 

-+-I tried the regedit process suggested, but when I get to Software, there is no Elantech, nor is there anything
resembling Touchpad. I have a shaky right hand- I have not only started options I didn't want, I have literally deleted whole folders and directories with this tap feature. The computer I'm trying to change is an Asus G75VX, on which
I upgraded from Win 8.1 64 to Win 10 64. Win 8 had Smart Gesture, but the win 10 install just added a PS2 driver, which doesn't provide a tap-off option. I am writing this on my personal Asus laptop G771J, and Smart Gesture works fine.

 

Just go to Device Manager and manually update the touchpad driver in the HID section of devices. It adds the old icon back to the taskbar and you can disable taps and gestures and it fixes the jittery oversensitivity of the pad.