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Unlock hidden Synaptics Touch Pad settings in windows 10
I was working on a ZBook G3 the other day and ran into an infuriating issue with its Synaptics Touch Pad: The touch sensitivity out-of-the-box was set so high that when I slowly moved the cursor it would get jittery and not respond.
While examining specific trackpad details, I found that I have a Synaptics LuxPad V1.3 device that communicates using an SMB port (whatever that is!)
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- To do so, first, launch Device Manager. Then right-click on the Synaptics driver under ‘Mice and other pointing devices’ and go to Properties. On the window that pops up, head to the Driver tab.
In investigating this further I found that the Synaptics driver hides the 'advanced settings' from windows 10 users for some inexplicable reason. Once enabled I was able to fine-tune the trackpad settings to be more bearable.
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Note: Registry usage can be harmful- be sure you have all appropriate backups before continuing!
- Open regedit.exe
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARESynapticsSynTPCpl
- Open the HideTPSettings DWORD Value
- Change the value from 1 to 0 and hit OK
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- Open Start -> Settings
- Select Devices
- Click on Mouse and Touchpad in the left-hand bar
- Scroll to the bottom of the window
- Click on Additional Mouse Options
- Select the TouchPad tab
- Click the Settings... button
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Within this UI you can adjust your trackpad to a greater degree of precision than you can using the built-in windows tools.