Windows 10: How to enable momentum in hp-745-g5 Touchpad

Hi,

I have on all my previous HP machines had Synaptics touchpad and I have had Momentum activated, and I love it, and miss it extremely much on this new otherwise fine machine I have at work. My old work machine (6.5 years) had support for it. I have googled and tried registry changes, nothing helps. I will not be satisfied with this computer until Momentum is in place. So how do I fix it, or will there come an update soon so it will work? How can such a good function be removed?

(My all new private Apple MacBook Air does not have support for something similar either, so I do not use it very much, prefer my private HP Pavilion with Windows 10 where Momentum works).







***Original title: How do I get Momentum to work on an HP 745 G5 with Windows 10 and PrecisionTouchPad?***

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How to disable trackpad for HP Elitebook 840 G5

As the question states, I am simply trying to disable my touchpad on my HP laptop. So I think this is very specific for the HP Elitebook 840 G5 as I have tried the following generic methods to disable the trackpad:

1. Under mouse settings, using the Synaptics tab. This tab does not exist for me. (Reference HP Notebooks with Synaptics TouchPad - How to Disable the "Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad" Feature | HP® Customer Support)
   
2. Disabling the Synaptics driver. I thought this would work for sure too but I tried to disable all of the mouse drivers available under Mice and other pointing devices (Device Manager) and the trackpad still works.
   
3. Using third party software. I tried "touchpad-blocker" and even when enabled, the touchpad still works.
   
4. Double tapping the top left corner (https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Noteb...ad-on-an-hp-elitebook-850-laptop/td-p/5480918) This does nothing for mine.
   

I am open for other suggestions. I am really surprised that disabling the driver didn't work.

 

Microsoft Precision Touchpad Registry Tweak to Enable Momentum

Hi,

I have a Dell XPS 13 9343 running Windows 10 x64, which uses the generic precision touchpad drivers. I actually really like the touchpad for the most part, but I REALLY miss momentum. Does anybody have a solution to tweak registry settings (possibly in
location located below) that would enable this feature. I do NOT want to use synaptics drivers, so please do not respond if that is your solution. THANKS.

Possible registry location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad

I've tried adding MomentumEnable and Momentum_Enable as dword with value "1" but this had no effect.

THANKS

 

Is there any way to enable cursor momentum when using the Microsoft Precision Touchpad driver? Registry key perhaps?

Hello.

I have a new machine with an Alps touchpad. After using Synaptics for years, this is a major retrograde step and is driving me mad.

I have the option to use the Windows Precision drivers instead, which are marginally better, but still woeful in comparison to the functionality available in the Synaptics driver.

One thing I particularly miss is cursor momentum, which allows you to move the cursor large distances across the screen with a small flick. The cursor has momentum and so continues to move till you tap to stop it - much like momentum scrolling.

In practical terms what this means is that you can set the cursor speed fairly low to aid precision when selecting, but still be able to move it quickly from one area of the screen to another.

This feature, along with edge scrolling are sorely missed in both the Alps and Microsoft Precision driver, so I'm keen to know if there is any way of enabling it?

So many things are possible by creating registry keys, so I'm hoping this is too.

Any advice greatly appreciated.