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HP Laptop - Windows 10 - Settings options for touchpad missing

Anonymous
2020-01-10T02:00:56+00:00

Settings for my touchpad are awfully limited.  On the previous laptop that I owned there was an extensive menu for enabling and disabling touchpad gestures.  A search on this Windows Support forum yeilded a topic that directed you on how to update drivers within the Device Manager settings menu.  I updated the drivers and restarted my laptop and below is a print screen of my settings following the driver update.  As you can see there really isn't much of use there.  When I click the link on the right "Additional settings" the traditional Mouse Properties window appears but within that window no settings for the touchpad.  I searched this board once again but turned up empty handed.  Is there a download to patch the missing menu items or perhaps a code that will bring them back through Registry Editor?  Thank you for your help in advance.

Here's a print screen of the drivers as they appear in Device Manager.

Synaptics SMBus TouchPad

As I already said, I updated the drivers here and restarted the laptop.  No settings change.

Here is an image I found on a search of what a correct settings for touchpad looks like.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-11T15:50:15+00:00

    Solution found!

    I already checked the Start Menu previous to updating my drivers as directed through an article about synaptics touchpad but it didn't dawn on me to double check after the drivers were updated.  So, it appears that updating the drivers brought the Synaptics Touchpad menu item back to the Start Menu and it looks like this.

    When you open the Synaptics TouchPad start menu item you get a classic styled window with a full list of customizing options for touchpad gestures.  You can press the Settings button and get your full options there.  Also on this window is a link to the manufacturer's webpage.

    My tought is that the reason Synaptics Touchpad settings aren't available in the main Windows 10 system settings has something to do with copyright and software licensing and ownership issues.

    I figured this out on my own and outlined what I did so if this helps someone else down the road then good.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-08T10:42:28+00:00

    Found Synaptics settings, but they do not work correctly.

    My problem - I want to have middle-click action by three fingers touch. But whatever I put in Synaptics settings I get only  open search action(((

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-23T14:57:21+00:00

    Thank you so much for sharing!  After hours of tinkering around, I stumbled upon your post.  I appreciate your help.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-10T02:12:06+00:00

    Learn other gestures simply takes you to an internet search information dump.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-10T02:07:13+00:00

    To the right there are Additional settings did you click on Hardware and see what was there under Touchpad?

    And did you try Learn other gestures?

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