E5-575G-527J Touchpad Issues

dirtyrobinson

Hi,

 

I bought this laptop last night but I have some serious concerns about the functionality of this touchpad and the lack of advanced settings.

 

Is there a way to get this buttonless touchpad to act more like a real touchpad?  Its really hard to right click because there isn't a definition of where the right click section is so I successfully right click about 10% of the time anywhere in the lower right section.  I'm used to using my pointer finger and keeping my thumb on the buttons for faster response, unfortunately the whole touchpad appears to stop functioning when I keep my thumb on it or I can't press down with my thumb and then move the pointer while holding it down.

 

Also, can you right and left click at the same time?  Very frustrating for gaming and nearly impossible for 3D modeling.

 

The laptop is really nice but this trackpad is such a headache that I'm considering buying a non-acer laptop for a real touchpad.  Or is there another touchpad I can purchase for this laptop?

 

 

brummyfan2

Do you have the Precision touchpad? If you have,the link below may provide some help, I hope.

http://www.howtogeek.com/227073/how-to-use-and-configure-windows-10%E2%80%99s-gestures-on-a-laptop-touchpad/

You could also try a USB mouse as well.

dirtyrobinson

Thanks for the link but it doesn't really help at all.

 

I was really hoping there would be a lot more options available that are usually standard with normal synaptics touch pads.  The best I can do was setting it to Basic in the BIOS so its a PS/2 compatible mouse but I can't restrict the pointing zone so when I go to click with my thumb, it will register it as another finger trying to move the pointer.  When I manually install the synaptics driver, I get all of those options but since its a generic synaptics driver, it doesn't recognize the right button unless I press on the lower right corner.

 

 

brummyfan2

How about two finger tap? It should behave as right click, give it a try.

EDIT: Your model has Precision touchpad and not Synaptics, I am afraid that you are stuck with the available functions at the moment.

http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.GHHAA.004