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Re: Software (not drivers) for Touchpad on a V3-572G?

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:23:09 GMT

Are you asking me or telling me?

I'm on the only account set up on the computer - yes, it's admin.

Re: Software (not drivers) for Touchpad on a V3-572G?

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:52:34 GMT

As you can see in the image below, there's just the HID-compliant mouse listed. The info to the right of that is the properties for that device.

It looks like it's a Synaptics touchpad and I downloaded and installed the driver for that, but I can't find the software for the touchpad. On a previousl laptop I had a Synaptics touchpad with software that allowed me to customize the scroll areas, corners, etc. That's what I'm trying to find...

Re: Software (not drivers) for Touchpad on a V3-572G?

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:13:18 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I checked and there's no driver listed there for my touchpad (though the touchpad is working).

Re: Aspire V3-572G - How to disable/enable touchpad depending on USB mouse plugged in

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:58:50 GMT

Okay - before I do that, though: if I uninstall that pointing device driver - the only one listed in Device Manager - won't I lose functionality of the touchpad and/or mouse?

Re: Aspire V3-572G - How to disable/enable touchpad depending on USB mouse plugged in

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:54:17 GMT

"SYN" is in that information, so it must be Synaptics. But the type of device is a mouse, or is that some generic device name for pointing devices on the macine?

Re: Aspire V3-572G - How to disable/enable touchpad depending on USB mouse plugged in

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:25:36 GMT

I can't tell which touchpad it is. Acer's drivers page for this laptop with Win 8 has driver download for both manufacturers.

Is there a way to find out which one I have? There's nothing listed in Mice and other pointing devices in Device Manager for a touchpad - just the mouse driver.

Re: Aspire V3-572G - How to disable/enable touchpad depending on USB mouse plugged in

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:30:12 GMT

Thanks, Ace. I'm aware of that already (frankly I'm suprised how many people miss it - all you have to do is look at the function keys and figure out the little image on the keys to see that!) But I digress...

I didn't mention in my question that I did actually see that checkbox somewhere on this computer before - I thought it was on a tab in the mouse settings dialog. I got a Logitech mouse and installed the Setpoint software. After installing the software I checked the box (wherever it is/was) to disable the touchpad when the mouse is detected.

As it is now, with that setting enabled (disable touchpad with mouse plugged in), when the mouse is plugged in the touchpad is diabled, but F7 doesn't enable it.

So I uninstalled the Setpoint software in hopes I'd somejhow find that tab/setting in the mouse diaglog, but that didn't work.

Aspire V3-572G - How to disable/enable touchpad depending on USB mouse plugged in

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:43:24 GMT

I have seen a setting before on other computers where you can check a box to disable the touchpad when a USB mouse is plugged in. I can't find it on this Aspire V3-572G. I thought it was somewhere in the mouse settings dialog, but can't find it.

I am running Win8.1 Pro.

Thanks for anyone's help.

Software (not drivers) for Touchpad on a V3-572G?

capella — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:46:37 GMT

My touchpad works fine with whatever driver was installed by the factory, but I'd like to have the software (if any exists) to customize the scroll areas, corner buttons, etc.

I can't even figure out what brand the touchpad is - on the drivers page there are driver downloads for both Synaptics and Elantech for Windows 8.1. But they're just the drivers anyway - I'd like the software for whatever brand is on my laptop.

Thanks for any help.