A few days ago I was having a problem with my touchpad resetting it’s options (such as the tapclick thing which I don’t want on)
I downloaded the latest version of the driver and installed. This seemed to solve the problem.
But now it seems every time the laptop is restarted the problem re-occurs. Eventually the synaptics driver told me that it is disabling advanced features as another pointing device is plugged into the system (not true, physically)
So I remove the ‘ps/2 mouse’ option in device manager, restart. windows re-installs it. problem is back.
So in short, windows is doing that bloody irritating thing it did when I was trying to update my graphics drivers months ago re: reverting back to the old drivers and f***ing up the system.
I remember there was a fix to stop windows doing that. How do I get rid of all references to the touchpad. then make it so windows won’t put them back. then put the up-to-date synaptics driver on?
as well as the tap feature keep turning back on the pointer behaves erratically. Often when I take my finger off the pad the pointer jumps to some other place on the screen. This is annoying as to travel a large distance you have to repeat movements on the pad, meaning you have to lift your finger off at least once.
I am sure glad I ordered a normal mouse!