Windows 10: Touchpad too sensitive . . .

I have an Asus laptop, purchased new in September 2019, W10, Firefox, auto-updates all on, has the latest touchpad driver. Win version 1909.

An overly-sensitive touchpad has been a problem since new, and also was on my previous laptop, an HP. Yes, it's set on the lowest-sensitivity setting. Also, the "Disable cursor while typing" does not work. Not sure if it ONLY applies to a mouse.

My main problem is that when I'm typing, the cursor will often start jumping around, and just the slightest incidental touch of the pad will send my post before it's done. Very annoying.

FWIW, I bought a new Dell in 2006 and never had this, nor any of the other annoying issues I've had, with the several laptops I've had since then. I did not buy another Dell, as they are probably no better than any others now.

I've searched for solutions to the touchpad and it's always a dead-end -- despite it being a pretty common problem. Microsoft forums and "experts" are completely worthless. I tried a 3rd party add-on but it didn't work.

Anything?

:)

 

touchpad sensitivity

Hi Joobster,

When you mean Touchpad sensitivity, are you referring to the pointer speed of your touchpad? Or are you referring to the touch/pressure sensitivity of your touchpad whenever to press your fingers on your touchpad?

If you are referring to the pointer speed, you may follow the steps below:

• Press Windows key + R on your keyboard.
• Type "main.cpl" and hit enter.
• Click Pointer Options.
• Under Motion, select the pointer speed you wanted for your touchpad.

Regarding the Touch/pressure sensitivity, then you will need to contact your PC manufacturer to assist you on installing the right drivers for your touchpad.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Decrease Touchpad Sensitivity

Hello Pete,

There is a possibility that you're experiencing this issue due a touchpad driver problem. For us to efficiently assist you, we would like to ask a few questions:

• Could you tell us what is the make and model of your device?
• Have you tried updating the touchpad driver on your device? If not, we suggest that you update it by following the steps
  here on how to update drivers in Windows 10.

Meanwhile, we advise that you try the steps provided by Pawan Dhondiyal in this
article on how to adjust the touch sensitivity of your device.

We're looking forward to your response.

 

Touchpad Sensitivity

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We understand the difficulties you are facing with the touchpad sensitivity. We appreciate your effort in troubleshooting the issue and thanks for providing us the detail information in the post.

However, we would suggest you to perform these methods.

Method 1: Uninstall the HID driver from the PC and then reinstall the updated driver.

1. Press Windows + X, select Device Manager.
2. Open Mice and other pointing devices, right click on the
   HID-compliant mouse.
3. Select Uninstall and check the box for Delete the driver software for this device.
4. Click Ok.
5. Please repeat the same steps if any other HID-compliant mouse
   are present.
6. Finally close the Device Manager and restart the PC.
7. Check if the issue persist, If yes then perform method 2.

Method 2: Seems that the PC requires a
touchpad driver updates. We would suggest you to update them and then check if the touchpad sensitivity issue persist.

As addition, we would suggest you to refer this
Touchpad Usage and Troubleshooting
Guide and follow the Resolving Touchpad Button Issues
section.

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We await your response.

Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator