How to enable Precision Touchpad drivers on your non-precision PC. Open the Windows Device manager and navigate to “Mice and other pointing devices” Check what driver you have, it should either be Synaptics or Elan. Download Elan or Synaptics precision drivers from either Softpedia or Lenovo according to your configuration. May 29, 2018 Since Precision Touchpad is developed to work with Windows 10 it means that you should have a better experience. Users are reporting better movement and sensitivity after installing the precision touchpad drivers. Before you begin, make sure to have a mouse at hand in case the installation kills the touchpad and you need to do a restart. Microsoft Drivers Download. To get the latest Windows 10 driver, you may need to go to Microsoft website to find the driver for to your specific Windows version and device model. Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 USB Driver: SidewinderPre. Are.zip: 8.7 MB: 24,238: Free Download.
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I have a Dell XPS 15 (9530) that has a Synaptics clickpad. I've tried tinkering with many settings and different Dell/Synaptics drivers, but there's always some aspects that don't work well (two finger scrolling, or palm rejection, etc).
After looking at the Synaptics website (http://www.synaptics.com/en/clickpad.php) it mentions that 'All Synaptics TouchPads can interface with Microsoft's Precision TouchPad driver or can be powered by the industry leading Synaptics Gesture Suite.'
Is there a way to force the touchpad to use the Precision drivers? Are the precision touchpad drivers available for download at some location?
Any help would be great, thanks!
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I found a way to do this and I have posted a quick tutorial here: The Verge Forums. This works on my HP Spectre X360 (2017) that has a synaptics touchpad. I cannot guarantee this will work for everyone, but it is worth a shot. My tutorial is based on the findings from here (reddit post).
UPDATE
So I noticed that with this hack, the driver would break after the system woke from a sleep state. By 'break' I mean the touchpad would work, but none of the touchpad settings / precision functionality would be present. Interestingly enough, this issue did not happen when the machine would wake from hibernate, only when waking from sleep. To fix this, you need to create a windows task that restarts the driver on system wake.
To begin, first you need to grab a copy of devcon.exe for your particular operating system install. See this other superuser post for that. After you have devcon.exe on your machine (in my case, I put it under C:Program FilesDevCon) you need to identify the driver you need restarted.
Shift+Left-Click in the folder that contains devcon.exe and select the 'Open CMD/PowerShell' context menu item. From here we can determine the ID of the driver we need to restart.
This command will bring up a list of different items. Look for the one with the description of 'Synaptics HID-Compliant Touch pad Device' or something similar. For me, this maps to 'ROOTSYNHIDMINI0000' which is the ID I am interested in for restarting purposes.
Once you have your ID, you need to create a scheduled task (as administrator!) to reset this device by ID. To do this, open Task Scheduler (you can search for this in the start menu) as an administrative user. Within the task scheduler window, create a new task:
Fill out the task's name (such as 'Restart TouchPad On Wake') and description. Be sure to set it to run as a user with administrative privileges and to tick the 'run with highest privileges' box. Also be sure to select the radio button for 'Run whether user is logged in or not.'
Next, click the triggers tab and create a new trigger. The trigger should begin the task on an event with the log being System and Source being Power-Troubleshooter. Event ID should be 1 (this stands for system wake).
Next, under the actions tab, create a new action. The action should be 'start a program' and the Program/Script field should point to your full install path of devcon.exe. The arguments should be something like
The '@' symbol preceding your ID is important as well as the quotes!
Finally, be sure to open the conditions tab for the task and un-tick the box under the power heading that states 'Start the task only if the computer is on AC power.' This ensures the task still runs even when you are not plugged in.
Finally click ok and ensure that your task has been created. Now every time your system is woken up from sleep, this task will run devcon.exe and tell it to restart the synaptics driver as an administrative user. This should ensure that the driver is properly initialized for use and that you will have all of your Microsoft Precision goodness at all times.
James ManesJames Manes
Firstly go to `PC Settings>PC and Devices>Mouse and Touchpad to check if the Precision Touchpad is turned off (or not present).
Free countdown timer for desktop. Turn it on if it is currently off.
If it's not present then it will look like this:
Since the touchpad should be compatible with Precision, make sure your Windows Update is up to date. For the Precision settings to be shown you will need Update KB2975719.
For your model (XPS-15 9530), the Synaptics touchpad driver removes some gesture functions of the touchpad but may improve your touchpad experience overall (more info). Therefore you'll have to choose which touchpad drivers to use by toggling it on or off.
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My Acer S7-392 has a Synaptics clickpad as well and originally didn't support the Windows 10 multitouch gestures (no precision trackpad). As I still wanted to have those multitouch features I tried a couple of different drivers hoping they would work - one did!
Let me run you through the steps that I made:
Maybe this does work for someone else as well :)
PeterPeter
All Synaptics TouchPads can interface with Microsoft's Precision TouchPad driver or can be powered by the industry leading Synaptics Gesture Suite.
The hardware and interface for a Precision Touchpad is different than from a traditional/'Modern' touchpad.
What this statement means is that every touchpad is either one or the other, not that you can switch between them.
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If you are Synaptic/Elan touchpad user, it can be successfully changed to the version of Elan driver which is compatible to precision touchpad and it's feature. Google 'Elan WDF driver' and you will get it.
Notice that there are some critical steps you should follow to complete your installation. First, modify the file called 'ETD.inf' with notepad and replace Hardware ID to your device's touchpad id (ACPIETDXXXX), then restart your computer with driver signature enforcement overrider disabled. after all installation finished and computer restarted, you will see the precision touchpad features at settings.
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