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The screen enlarges and shrinks while using the touchpad.

Anonymous
2013-01-25T22:07:18+00:00

Original title : touchpad on my laptop enlarges and shrinks the view seemingly at random. How do I control that?

Sometimes when I swipe my finger across the touchpad to move the curser a magnifying glass icon comes up and my view zooms or shrinks. I don't know what triggers that. This is extremely annoying. I want to know how to control this function

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Devices and drivers

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Anonymous
2013-01-25T22:18:34+00:00

Check the options on your touchpad settings, its nothing to do with win7 itself

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-06T16:13:17+00:00

    This really didn't help because the touchpad was not listed under devices. then I went into devise manager and selected the touchpad, but there was no choice to change settings there

    Meantime, I did finally figure out how to shrink/zoom my email in Firefox - it was under the view menu.

    Still would be nice to be able to turn off the mutlitouch gestures though. It  happens in Word and Excel as well and I have to stop work and fix it every time

    TKS

    Sandy

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-27T07:32:14+00:00

    Hi Sandy,

    Welcome to Microsoft Community and thanks for posting the question.

    Based on the description provided, it looks like the touchpad will use the magnifier.

    However, please answer these questions so that we can provide a better solution.

    1. What is the make and model of the computer?
    2. Were there any changes made to the computer prior the issue?

    This issue may occur if have multitouch gestures" on your touchpads.

    a. Simply go to the control panel>hardware>devices>mouse and turn off the multitouch gestures.

    b. Uncheck all the boxes and click apply and click ok.

    c. Check for the issue.

    d.  If you still want to use the multitouch gestures, just re-check all the boxes and click apply again.

    Hope this helps. If you have any more queries related to Windows feel free to post here at Microsoft Community.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-25T22:29:19+00:00

    Thanks. That's what I thought. But when I found mice in control panel and opened it, the dialogue box gave me no options to change settings.

    What am I missing?

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