Windows 10: Touchpad not properly functioning

I have an hp probook 640 g1 which runs on Windows 11. From the past few months my touchpad is not properly working, i.e; the gesture dont work, the tap to click and click drag doesnt work, even the touchpad buttons dont work quite a few times. However, whenever i update my windows when an update arrives, the touchpad immediately starts to behave normally for some time after the laptop has restarted after the update. However, it is like the drivers that made my touchpad malfuction also turn on after some time and thus the malfunction behaviour continues. I have tried to remove and reinstall dif

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My touchpad isn't working properly

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in reply.



I suggest you to roll back the drivers and check if that helps.

Try the following steps:

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  Right click on the start icon and choose device manager
  
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  In device manager, right on the touchpad under Mice and other pointing devices.
  
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  Click on Rollback under driver tab.
  

Hope this helps.

 

I want to disable touchpad on Dell laptop


Hello everyone,
My laptop's touchpad works and I don't want it to, because I prefer a mouse. It's a Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series on windows 10 OS.

What I have tried that hasn't worked:

• start<settings<devices<mouse & touchpad<additional mouse options. This opens a window called Mouse Options which has 5 tabs up top, none of which involve the touchpad. The Hardware tab shows 2 devices: the mouse itself, and the USB. No touchpad there.
• windows key+x<mobility center. No touchpad to be found.
• various function keys. No options for touchpad on/off.
• device manager<mice and other pointing devices. Again, only the mouse and usb show up. It appears the touchpad is working without a driver, which is a little spooky.

Any other suggestions? I could try downloading a third party driver, but that seems like a step in the wrong direction.
Thanks

 

SOLVED: Laptop Touchpad fully functional, but not in Universal apps

OK - sorted it finally :

• in step one/two above you delete the existing Synaptics drivers then have to reboot
• unfortunately when the PC restarts it installs some generic touchpad drivers which have the basic functionality
• So although step4 (run setup) appears to work, it hasn't actually done anything as the generic drivers are already there

So what you have to do is this...

• In device manager, select the mouse device and click update drivers.
• Then select Browse My Computer > Let me pick from a list > Have disk button, and select the folder with the new Synaptics drivers (I'm running 32-bit windows so selected ..\WinWDF\x86).
• The green progress bar shows the drivers are loading, then when it's all done you now have the new functionality installed - RESULT!!!
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