Notebooks & Netbooks

[moonlander]

According to the solutions I found when I googled the problem, I should be able to disable edge swipe by simply updating the synaptics drivers and turning off "edge swipe" under synpatics settings. However, there is no such setting even with the latest drivers 17.xx 

According to a link given as a solution to the same problem, this page was given as a link, and its the same solution I saw on google.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/20992-touchpad-edge-swipes-enable-disable-windows-8-a.html 

However, I do not have the option to turn it off under settings. Any help appreciated, its an extremely annoying feature..

[brummyfan2]

Try driver version 16.3.12.31, it's for Windows 8 but worth a shot, there seems to be few problems with Windows 8.1 drivers.

http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers

[moonlander]

The driver worked fine, but still no options to disable edge swipe. Is this something specifically lacking in synaptics drivers for acer? Possibly try drivers for another brand? 

[brummyfan2]

Yes, you can try any similar motherboard laptop's version of driver, even some other brand of laptop's driver will work, I used HP's Synaptics driver in my Acer Aspire 5610z.