The touchpad is a touch pad that works like a mouse in desktop computer. At first, many users are skeptical about this part of the laptop, as it seems uncomfortable. In fact, it's all just a matter of time - with prolonged use, the touchpad becomes no less comfortable than a mouse.
When using a laptop computer, it is not always possible to use an external mouse
Another thing is that the touch panel does not always work and respond to touch when turned on, so you should know how to turn it on and if you set it up for the most convenient use. Let's figure out how to enable the touchpad on a laptop and change its settings.
How to enable touchpad?
There are several ways to enable touch panel:
- On many modern laptops there is a small indentation directly next to the touchpad - use it to turn the touchpad on or off. If you do not have such an in-depth button, use the following method.
- Each laptop has an Fn function key that is used to perform different tasks when you press it with the buttons of the row from F1 to F12 One of them is specially reserved for launching the touchpad and most often there is a corresponding mark on it. Therefore, try pressing Fn with one of the keys in this row, or use each of them in turn.
- It is possible that the touchpad is disabled in the system itself, and it needs to be activated through the BIOS - go to the menu when you start the laptop or reboot it, find the Pointing Device section, where the device will be indicated. To enable it, you need to select the option Enable, disable - Disable. Do not forget to save the changes by selecting the F10 combination or another combination that says Save and Exit.
If all the above actions did not work, it is worth checking if everything is in order with the drivers - they may be outdated. To do this, do the following:
- Through Start, go to the Control Panel menu and select Device Manager.
- Find the Mouse section, the touchpad line and look at the hardware properties - if the drivers are outdated or do not work (this happens after replacing the operating system), this will be indicated in the window that appears.
- If there is something wrong with the drivers and they need to be updated or reinstalled, the computer will do it on its own, or you can necessary files on the Internet and specify the path to them in the properties of the equipment.
If you cannot turn on the touchpad through the operating system, key combinations, BIOS, it is most likely a hardware malfunction - in this situation, you will have to bring the laptop in for repair.
Touchpad settings
In addition to the fact that this detail can be turned on or off, the touchpad can be configured so that it is most convenient for you to use it at work or at leisure. Let's see how you can change its settings.
So, to change the parameters of the touchpad, you should follow these steps:
- Go through Start to Control Panel.
- Select Device Manager and the Mouse section.
- Open the line with the name of the touchpad, select properties and in the window that appears, under the name of the equipment, click on the parameters.
What settings might be useful for you? Pay attention to the following options:
- You can enable or disable scrolling, activate the ChiralMotion function, which allows you to scroll through pages not only from top to bottom, but also in a circular motion - this is convenient if you are scrolling long document or site.
- Modern laptop models support multi-touch, which allows you to work with the touchpad with not one, but several touches, which expands its functionality - you can also activate this tool here in the device settings.
- One of the most important tools is sensitivity, which can be adjusted according to criteria such as accidental touches and finger typing. For example, if you constantly hit the touchpad while typing and it responds, you might want to lower the scale in the Palm touch control setting. If you want the touchpad to be less or more responsive to your fingers, select Touch Sensitivity.
- In some cases, if you still constantly touch the touchpad when typing, you can activate the lock when using the keyboard - this way you will be sure that the cursor will remain in its place and will not scroll the page until you enter text or click on individual buttons.
- Additionally, the speed of cursor movement, the area of pressure on different parts of the touchpad and the scrolling speed are adjusted.
As you can see, the touchpad, although different from the usual for users desktop computers mouse, can be well adapted to your needs. Now you know how to enable the touchpad using several methods and configure its settings.
The correct setting of the touchpad is a guarantee of convenience when working on a laptop, when the mouse is forgotten, it is out of order or the battery is dead. Not all users are aware of some of the touchpad functions that exceed the capabilities of the classic manipulator. Setting up this device is nothing supernatural, but without prior configuration, working on a laptop or netbook is not entirely comfortable. To improve the efficiency of the manipulator on Windows 8-10, there are several options that we will focus on today.
Configuring the TouchPad
The touchpad is configured in the section of the control panel called "Mouse".
- We call the "Control Panel" and go to the previously mentioned applet.
- We switch to the "Device Settings" tab, which will appear only on a laptop with the "eight" or Windows 10 installed.
Here, the user can immediately select the method for visualizing the touchpad icon in the panel. Windows tasks 10:
- hide the device icon;
- display a fixed icon;
- show animated touchpad icon.
- By clicking on the "Parameters (S)" button, we will get to the touch manipulator settings menu.
Important! On laptop models from various manufacturers The configuration window and the list of features provided can vary greatly, so let's look at the most common settings supported by all touchpads.
The "Scroll" section allows you to change the parameters for scrolling lines and turning pages of documents using a touch pad. Depending on the device model and version of its driver, scrolling options are available with two fingers or one, and you can specify the area of the sensitive element responsible for scrolling.
For example, the driver developer for our touchpad on Windows 10 added this feature to scroll through the pages multipage documents, and after a vertical swipe, you can perform movements counterclockwise or behind its course, the documents are flipped one page forward or backward.
The settings called "Scroll Area" in Windows 8 and 10 provide the ability to scroll with one finger in a given area and adjust the scroll area by simply moving its borders.
Nowadays, it is almost impossible to find a touchpad that does not support multi-touch functions - reading multiple simultaneous touches. Using a function on a Windows 10 laptop to zoom text documents or graphics, including three-dimensional ones, and is called "Pinch Zoom". Its settings allow you to set the zoom speed.
An important point when setting up the touchpad is its sensitivity to finger pressure. Properly configuring the pointer's sensitivity will prevent it from being triggered by accidental touches on the touchpad, such as when typing. The algorithms debugged by the developers almost accurately detect accidental touches, the palm placed on the sensitive panel and targeted pressing.
Touch Sensitivity - a parameter that allows you to adjust the threshold pressure, the excess of which during pressing will cause the touchpad to work. At large values parameter, you will have to make a slight effort for the sensor to respond to the touch of a finger.
However, the developer of any touchpad and drivers for it offers a huge set of functions that allow you to configure the manipulator for the most convenient operation behind a laptop running Windows 10, including all kinds of gestures to perform simple operations.
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The touchpad (a touchpad built into laptops) is a convenient replacement for a classic mouse, and "hot gestures" make it even more versatile than a mouse. Let's figure out how to set up touchpad gestures in Windows 10 and what to do if it stops working.
Setting up the touchpad in Windows 10
Access to the mouse and touchpad settings is carried out through the path "Start - Settings - Devices - Mouse and touchpad". If the device has a touchpad, in the tab that opens, in addition to the mouse settings, there will also be the Touchpad item, which is responsible for configuring the touchpad. In addition, there is an item Extra options mouse" button, which opens the advanced settings menu.
From the mouse options menu you can access the touchpad settings as well as the advanced settings menu
Settings can also be changed in the "Control Panel": "Start - Control Panel - Mouse".
The options displayed in the window that opens are completely identical to the mouse options in the advanced settings menu, so which way to go to them is your choice.
This is what the mouse settings menu looks like, opened through the "Control Panel"
Changing basic settings
Basic parameters (delay before click, scroll speed, cursor movement, etc.) are configured in the same way for both the mouse and the touchpad. This is done through the mouse properties window already described above in the "Control Panel" (it is also the advanced settings menu in the mouse and touchpad parameters).
Advanced touchpad settings
Advanced settings include changing gestures, calibrating the touchpad, and additional functions like tracking the movement of the palm.
For each manufacturer, the set of settings is different, the interface is the same, therefore general instruction for all devices may not exist.
Therefore, you can only roughly show what the settings will look like. Let's take the touchpad from Lenovo as an example.
In addition, in each of the tabs there is a help that allows you to get help on any gesture.
Video: gestures in Windows 10
Touchpad not working
The touchpad may not work for several reasons:
- accidentally pressing the touchpad off button on the keyboard;
- incorrect driver updates;
- update or reinstalling Windows;
- action of viruses;
- disable touchpad in BIOS;
- mechanical breakdown.
If the touchpad is accidentally turned off via a button on the keyboard (as a rule, this is one of the Fn keys: most often a combination of Fn with F5, F6, F8 or F9), you can simply turn it on by pressing this button again. Finding it is easy: as a rule, it depicts a touchpad. The same button (or combination) will turn off the touchpad if you are not using it.
For example, the keyboard in the photo turns the touchpad on and off using the Fn and F9 buttons
If the reason is updating or reinstalling Windows, you can return everything to its place using the installation the correct driver(usually such problems occur when the driver was not installed or was installed incorrectly). Similarly, you can solve the problem if it arose due to incorrect update drivers.
As a result of these actions, the driver will either be rolled back to previous state or updated to a newer one.
If the driver stops working as a result of malicious software, you need to full check computer antivirus. In each antivirus, the process of launching it is designed in its own way, however general essence does not change: click on the antivirus icon in the tray and select the “Check” option in the window that opens (it can also be called “Scan”). Antivirus should detect malware and isolate or remove it.
To check the system for viruses and remove them, find the "Scan" button in the antivirus window
Another one possible reason- touchpad control disabled in BIOS. The BIOS is a system of programs that boots into Windows and manages system I/O.
Once touchpad support is enabled in the BIOS, the device should work.
If the reason for the failure of the touchpad is mechanical, nothing can be done: you have to carry the laptop for repair.
Video: what to do if the touchpad does not work
The touchpad is a convenient and compact replacement for a mouse. The abundance of additional gestures will give you the opportunity to perform even more action than when using a mouse, and correct setting provide maximum comfort at work.
AT last years Portable computers have become very widespread among users due to their convenience and versatility. However, any purchased laptop needs to be configured: even if it already has pre-installed Windows 7 or 8, you will have to change many parameters and adjust the sensitivity of the touchpad (increase or decrease it). The comfort of using any laptop largely depends on how comfortable the touchpad sensitivity is for its owner. It depends on this device how smoothly and accurately the cursor moves, how fast it moves. AT operating systems Windows 7 and 8 implemented the ability to customize the touchpad on laptops.
With its help, you can set the accuracy, sensitivity, and some less important parameters for the user. It's enough simple procedure, however, not all devices allow it to be carried out. To do this, you need to install a special driver package that can be downloaded from the official website of the developers. And if such an opportunity is programmatically provided for in them, then the owner of the laptop will not have any problems with setting the sensitivity of the touchpad. If not, at Windows installation 7 or 8 will be used standard drivers for the laptop touchpad, which only allow you to update them on the Microsoft website, but do not allow you to change its sensitivity.
How to change touchpad sensitivity
Like other settings, touchpad sensitivity can be found in the Panel Windows controls, which is located in the window of the Start button. Having opened the window, it is better to immediately correct the preview settings to Large icons. In this form, all functions will be much more convenient to use. The Mouse menu section has several tabs at the top of the window. To decrease or increase the sensitivity of the laptop touchpad, you need to select the one that shows the name of the touchpad. After that, it remains only to set the most preferred values. If the cursor suddenly jumps from its position while working with the keyboard and accidentally touching the panel with the palm of your hand causes the same effect, the touchpad sensitivity should be reduced. Too sluggish reaction suggests that this parameter is better to shift in the opposite direction.
In addition, adjusting the touchpad sensitivity correctly will help you adjust the responsiveness when pressing the touchpad. It is very convenient for working in graphics and text editors, will be very useful for fans computer games. If there is no such section, then this means that the drivers for the touchpad have not been installed, or software This notebook does not allow you to change the sensitivity of the panel. In this case, the only reasonable solution would be to buy a wireless or regular mouse, which can provide proper accuracy and smoothness of computer control. Sometimes careless manipulations with the touchpad can cause it to stop responding to user actions. Detailed information on how to bring it back to life can be obtained from.
Other important laptop touchpad settings
These include scrolling, which can be done with one or two fingers. In addition, the adjustment of the left and right buttons touchpad, which correspond to those of the mouse. In the menu, you can also change the current ones and hang on click the corresponding action from the list of suggested ones. Another important option is the touch to touchpad setting, which allows each corner of the panel to assign functions. separate button. This greatly expands the management capabilities of the laptop and makes working on it more comfortable.
TouchPad (touchpad) can sometimes be disabled on laptops for some reason. In some cases, users themselves disable the touchpad, because. it can interfere with active work with the laptop keyboard.
There are several options for enabling the touchpad. But when using them, you need to consider what brand of laptop you have. The point is that for different models apply different ways touchpad activation.
Let's look at how you can enable the touchpad on a laptop using several methods.
Reboot laptop
Regardless of the model and brand of laptop, the first tip to solve the problem is to reboot. It doesn't matter which one you have Windows system 7, Windows 8, Ubuntu or another, maybe there was just a one-time error and everything will fall into place after a reboot.
Using keyboard shortcuts
Most laptops have a special key combination to enable/disable the touchpad. Only for different brands it will be slightly different.
When using this method, you need to simultaneously press two keys on the laptop keyboard: the "Fn" key and one of function keys in the top row (F1-F12).
For different brands and models of laptops, this combination is slightly different. For example, for Asus laptops, you need to use the following combination: Fn + F9.
Enabling the touchpad on an Asus laptop
Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts to enable the touchpad for common brands of laptops:
- Asus - Fn + F9 or Fn + F7
- Acer - Fn + F7
- Lenovo - Fn + F8 and Fn + F5
- Dell - Fn + F5
- Sony - Fn + F1
- Toshiba - Fn + F5
- Samsung - Fn + F5
This list does not include the HP brand because the Hewlett-Packard laptops The touchpad is enabled using separate key dedicated for this function. If there is no such key, then, most likely, to complete this task, you need to do double tap(or long press) in the left upper corner touchpad (see video below).
Enabling touchpad in BIOS
If the touchpad does not work for you and the previous tips do not help, it may simply be disabled in the BIOS settings.
Go into the BIOS and find the item "Internal Pointing Device". The value of this parameter must be "Enable", i.e. included.
Installing/reinstalling drivers
Also, the reason for the inoperability of the touchpad may be the absence or wrong job device drivers. This situation may well be if Windows was reinstalled or some kind of failure occurred.
In this case, you need to try installing the touchpad drivers from the disk (if available) or download from the manufacturer's official website.
Synaptics TouchPad
Synaptics touchpads are now very commonly used on modern laptops. Perhaps on your laptop computer the touchpad of this manufacturer is also installed. In this case (if there is installed drivers) the touchpad can be disabled using the control panel.
To do this, go to the Windows control panel and select the "Mouse" item.
On the Device Settings tab, use the corresponding buttons to enable or disable the touchpad.
Also, for some driver versions, this tab may contain a setting that allows you to disable the touchpad when connected to laptop usb mice.
TouchPad is defective
If all of the above recommendations did not help you, perhaps the reason is physical breakdown touchpad or the contacts are simply disconnected. In this case, there is only one way out - to disassemble the laptop and check all connections. In extreme cases, you may even need to replace the touchpad. If you inexperienced user then it is better to entrust this work to professionals.
