How To Change Touchpad Sensitivity Windows 10

How to Accommodate Touchpad Sensitivity in Windows 10
If your Windows 10 PC (ex: laptop) has a built-in touchpad, you may need to adjust the touchpad sensitivity for your needs.

Touchpad sensitivity is how much pressure must be applied on the touchpad earlier information technology responds.

If your pointer is moving or clicking erratically or to hands, decreasing sensitivity may assistance.

If you have to press besides hard to operate the touchpad or the touchpad does not always respond to your taps, increasing the sensitivity may hay assistance.

This tutorial will show yous how to adjust the touchpad sensitivity for your account in Windows 10.

Touchpad sensitivity settings will vary from i device and commuter to another, and so you may not have some settings available or some settings may be different than in this tutorial.

If you have something different, then please postal service screenshots. I'll exist happy to include information technology in the tutorial for others.

Contents

Choice I: Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity in Settings

Pick Two: Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity using a REG file

Option Three: Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity in Properties for Synaptics ClickPad

Pick ONE

Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity in Settings

1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2 Click/tap on Touchpad on the left side, and select Nearly sensitive, High sensitivity, Medium sensitivity (default), or Low sensitivity for what you want in the Touchpad sensitivity drib carte on the correct side. (see screenshot beneath)

3 When finished adjusting touchpad sensitivity to what you desire, you lot can close Settings if you like.

OPTION 2

Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity using a REG file

This option is for setting the same setting in Option One, only doing so in the registry via REG file instead.

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry fundamental below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad

AAPThreshold DWORD

0 = Most sensitive
1 = Loftier sensitivity
ii = Medium sensitivity (default)
3 = Low sensitivity

1 Do step 2 (Most), footstep three (high), step 4 (medium), or step 5 (low) below for what you want.

2. To Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity to "Virtually sensitive"

A) Click/tap on the Download button beneath to download the file beneath, and go to pace 6 below.

Most_touchpad_sensitivity.reg

Download

iii. To Accommodate Touchpad Sensitivity to "High sensitivity"

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 6 beneath.

High_touchpad_sensitivity.reg

Download

4. To Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity to "Medium sensitivity"

This is the default setting

.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file beneath, and go to step six beneath.

Default_Medium_touchpad_sensitivity.reg

Download

v. To Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity to "Low sensitivity"

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 6 below.

Low_touchpad_sensitivity.reg

Download

6 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

7 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

8 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

ix Restart the computer to utilise.

10 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you lot like.

OPTION 3

Accommodate Touchpad Sensitivity in Properties for Synaptics ClickPad

one Open the Command Panel (icons view), click/tap on the Synaptics ClickPad or Synaptics Control Panel blazon icon, and shut the Control Panel. (come across screenshot below)

2 Expand open Pointing in the left pane, click/tap on Sensitivity, and click/tap on the gear icon (settings). (see screenshot below)

3 Adjust the Touch Sensitivity slider betwixt Light Affect (more sensitive) to Heavy Touch (less sensitive) for what you lot want, and click/tap on Shut. (run across screenshot beneath)

(On HP laptop)

(On Lenovo laptop)

4 Click/tap on OK to employ. (see screenshot below stride 2)

That'southward it,
Shawn

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