Windows 10: How to disable tapping on touchpad in windows 10 v 2004

I can't seem to find the touchpad settings to disable tap clicks or allow for two finger scrolling. On my other computers it's just under settings>devices>touchpad but those options aren't there on this new one.


Has a synaptics SMBus 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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Can't disable touchpad or tap-to-click

The touchpad on my laptop is poorly placed. I tend to tap it with the lower part of my right thumb when I'm typing, resulting in some really frustrating deletions and other errors. Prior to the most recent update I fixed this problem by disabling the tap-to-click
function and making it so I have to depress the touchpad to click. It was annoying, but less annoying than accidentally highlighing and deleting half the paper I'm writing.

I updated my laptop last week and noticed that tap-to-click came back. When I went to change it back, I found that I disabling tap-to-click wasn't an option anymore. Moreover, the button to completely disable the touchpad doesn't work. I have it set to "low
sensitivity," but I keep tapping stuff I don't mean to. It's driving me insane.

Please tell me I'm missing a setting somewhere. I just want to disable tap-to-click. Barring that, I want to disable the touchpad entirely and use a USB mouse.

For reference, I have a Lenovo Yoga 900-13ISK2 Signature and I'm running Windows 10 v.1709.

Thanks.

Moved from: Windows / Windows 10 / Windows settings

 

Touchpad: Tap twice to drag

Here's how it works standardly:

1. Tap twice
2. Hold down on the second tap
3. Move around and you're dragging
4. Release finger to stop dragging

Here's what I like it to do:

1. Tap twice
2. Hold down on the second tap
3. Move around and you're dragging
4. Release finger
5. Reposition finger and continue dragging by flicking the touchpad some more
6. (repeat steps 4 & 5 as many times as desired)
7. Release finger and perform one addditional tap to stop dragging

That's what it used to be like in the Windows 7 era with most touchpads. Some people found it annoying and disabled it, but I welcomed it.

I know dragging continues when your finger reaches the touchpad edges, but that I find greatly irritating because it looses all sense of precision. This mechanism is stupendously irritating when trying to pixel-precise drag a trackbar, or when doing some
painting in photoshop on the go. Or just anything that requires precision.

So I'd like to disable "drag continues at touchpad edge" and enable "require additional tap to stop dragging".

So how can I do that?

If not possible, then please consider this a feature request.