Notebooks & Netbooks

[quaycom]

Hi

2 days ago I bought a acer notebook.

The touchpad is working but not the gestures.

If i go to the "mouse settings", there are no specific settings for my touchpad.

Just the normal mouse settings like pointer speed...

I already downloaded the 2 driver which are on the acer support site:

TouchPad_Synaptics_18.1.2.1_W81x64_A and TouchPad_ELANTECH_13.6.1.1_W81x64_A.

I have installed boot of them sucesfully (there was the green pick).

So what to do now?

Does anyone have ideas?

Also for ur info there are no warning signes for unknown devices in the device manager.

Thanks

Sorry for my bad english, I'm not a native speaker.

[Acer-Ryan]

quaycom,

I am sorry that you having problems with the touchpad its gestures. I can assure you that the touchpad is working, however your touchpad is not a ELAN or Synaptics. It looks like we are shipping Precision touchpads with a lot of our newer Windows 8.1 products.

What this means is that the gestures you are use to are no longer the same and you have to go to a different location to manage your touchpads settings. For a better idea and explanation of Microsofts Precision touchpad and gestures, please visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/touchpad.

[quaycom]

Thanks for ur reply.

I already found this settings before but in my view, they are not complete.

I dont really like the zoom gesture, so I would like to deactivate just this gesture and still use the other one.

On my old Win 7 Notebook was a menu for each gesture where I could individually activate and deactivate each gesture.

Is there really no way to get the old settings back?

Thanks

[Acer-Ryan]

No.  The only available settings that are available to change are the ones listed here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/touchpad.

This is only my opinion, but I think the gesture changes that the Microsoft Precision touchpad use were made because some of the old gestures conflicted with the new features of Windows 8 /8.1. For example moving your finger up and down on the right edge use to let your scroll but that is to close to how you swipe from right to left to bring up the charms. Again this is just my look on why new gesture changes.

[quaycom]

Ok thanks for ur help.

I will try to get familiar with the new settings and gestures.

Thank you really much.