It would be nice if Elan wouldn't remove features like this from their driver. reg file and then restart the touchpad, but I'm too lazy to do that and, frankly, I don't turn palm tracking on and off at a high enough frequency where it would save me a lot of time to create a script for it. If fact, one could automate this whole process even more by creating an autohotkey script to automatically run the appropriate. reg files for them to take effect if you choose to do this instead of restarting your laptop (I would recommend steps 1-6 because it is much faster). There's no problem moving the cursor but sometimes I can't click from touchpad (by tapping on the touchpad surface). The above sequence is, generally, much faster than a restart, but keep in mind that you must do steps 1-6 after running either of the. Hello, I recently installed Windows 10 on my laptop (Samsung R540-JA01AE) and almost everything is working fine except my touchpad. The touchpad has been restarted, and the registry changes have now taken effect Make sure "Elan Smart-Pad" device is selected (or whatever it may be called) Tags (2) Tags: HP Notebook - 17-by0062cl. Search your Apps or look in the Start menu for the 'ELAN Touchpad Setting' app and you might find it. Select the "Touchpad" tab at the top of the Mouse Properties windowĤ. In the latest driver versions it appears to have been moved from the Control Panel to an App. Type "control main.cpl" (without quotes) and hit enterģ. In order for the registry changes to take effect, you either need to restart your laptop, or simply stop, and then enable the touchpad itself. The files have been attached to this post, and are also available to be downloaded here: reg files - one that enables palm tracking and one that disables it.
Through a little investigative research, I have found that it is, in fact, possible to disable palm tracking, but it takes a couple registry tweaks.
For those of you who have an Elan touchpad along with the latest drivers, you may be frustrated that you can't figure out how to disable the "palm tracking" feature, which automatically disables the touchpad whenever a key is pressed.