Swift3 SF314-52 touchpad problem: Driver missing SF314-52-55HL?

- I cannot 'turn off' the touchpad's 'touch to click' feature on my wife's Swift3 SF314-52. She wants no 'touch click', only the mechanical touchpad click.
- I believe that the 'touch' setting has NOT been activated all the time since the machine was purchased - but I don't use it much.
- When I go to the Settings/Devices/Touchpad, there is a Taps option but I only get a sensitivity adjustment, no 'Off' setting. If I choose Additional Settings under Related Settings, it gives me the standard Windows 'Mouse Properties' window, nothing about a touchpad.
- When I go to Device Manager in Control Panel, under 'Mice and other pointing devices' I get a PS/2 compatible mouse only. (If I plug in a wireless mouse, 'HID-compliant mouse' gets added. Sometimes I get so annoyed with the touchpad, which I touch inadvertently, I use an external mouse! I don't know how my wife can stand it.)
- I go to the Support page at Acer for my computer model and I see that there is NO touchpad driver listed in the Drivers.
- I tried out a new Swift3 (obviously a few years newer than mine) at Staples and it had some nice touchpad controls, including turning off the touch to click option.
- the laptop is running Windows 10 Home, 21H2. I don't think there is any exotic software. Malwarebytes malware protection.
- could a Windows update have removed the driver? Was there never a driver for the touchpad? That would seem odd to me...

Thanks for suggestions.

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JackE

Touchpad drivers are now part of the i/o driver package. They show up in Device Manager HiD folder as an i2c device and the Mice folder.

Just about all available Control Panel touchpad settings outside of DeviceMgr are usually shown by pressing WIN+R and entering 'MAIN.CPL'. On my system with an Elan touchpad, options are few, None for click/tap.

Sometimes additional touchpad settings can be found on the BIOS MAIN tab (press Ctrl+S for hidden options) and in the AcerQuickAccess app that comes bundled with the OEM Windows package.

Like you, I cannot use touchpads because they are unpredictable & functionally incompatible with me. Like the old ThinkPad Faber pencil-eraser finger buttons, they are useless laptop appendages. Thankfully they can be easily disabled and forgotten about.

At any rate, if you can't seem to get rid of the click, buy your wife a dozen roses and take her out to dinner instead. Maybe she'll live with it.

DBSwift3

Thanks for your help. Sadly, I tried all your suggestions but to no avail. I even explored the various Acer programs that came with the laptop - and I have long ignored. They, too, did not help. Even the Serial I/O driver currently listed for my laptop on the Acer website is *older* than the one already installed on this laptop. And, despite the "Before installing the touchpad driver, please install the Serial I/O driver first" warning at the top of the drivers list for my laptop, there is not touchpad driver!

So, I think it's time for the roses... and an external mouse!

JackE

>>>So, I think it's time for the roses... and an external mouse! >>>

Thanks for reporting back. Good luck. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this resolves the issue.

Balatekie

Hi!!

@DBSwift3,

I wanted you to share the Part # of your computer. Hence, can check the exact specs and look an option to help u regarding Touchpad clicking options.

Regards,
Balatekie

DBSwift3

The specific model number for this Swift 3 is: SF314-52-55HL
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

JackE

>>>So, I think it's time for the roses... and an external mouse! >>>The specific model number for this Swift 3 is: SF314-52-55HL Any suggestions would be appreciated.>>>

Oh-oh. If it looks anything like this one, you might also have to thrown in a nice candlelight dinner somewhere to solve the problem.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/editor/k4/rbk0p6d43zev.jpg

DBSwift3

That's the one! Unfortunately, I guess... Still hoping someone has the answer for turning off the 'touch to click' feature.

billsey

It looks to me like that isn't an option short of some esoteric registry tweak. The BIOS doesn't have it and the touchpad settings don't have it. Does the volume of the click drop when you turn the system volume down? Maybe it's just a live with the sound issue.

DBSwift3

Thanks. By the 'touch click' I had meant using a touch tap to make a 'left click' on the mouse, not actually the sound of the click.

But I think you have discovered what I did - there are just don't seem to be any adjustments for fine tuning the touchpad - like turning off the touch activation of the 'click equivalent', multiple finger swipes, etc. etc.

I'll just live with it. It could be worse!