How to Fix windows 10 touchpad issues.

For me, touch pad is a component marked to be disabled permanently. I used it in the past but had an experience with a laptop I liked a lot, constant use of touch pad changed the colour on that spot thereby defacing my much-loved touchpad since then I stopped the use of touch pad.

This will not be the same for other folks, there are those who prefer touchpad to mouse anytime even though it is not a good experience, especially if you don't know how to adapt it to your way of operating it or if you don't know how to troubleshoot it. 
This article provides a short guide that will show you how to fix touchpad problems on Windows 10.

Let me start off by showing you how to customize the touchpad's settings so that you can use it in a comfortable fashion.

·        Cursor speed - 

     If your screen is moving a lot faster or a lot slower than your finger on the touchpad, there's a very simple fix for your troubles: open the Start Menu, click on Settings (the icon that resembles a cog), then go to Devices --> Mouse & touchpad and press the small button named Additional mouse settings. In the Mouse Properties window that opens up, go to the Pointer Options tab and you'll see a Select pointer speed bar; just drag the cursor on the bar to increase or decrease the speed.

      Double-click options

      if whenever you tap the touchpad, Windows perceives it as a double-click, you can fix that as well: repeat the steps from above to get to the Mouse Properties window and in the first tab, the one called Buttons, there's a bar that will allow you to increase or decrease the double-click speed.

You should know for convenience that you can use and create your own gestures for the touchpad, but only works with Precision touchpads. Those who have a touchpad capable of using gestures should see a "Your PC has a precision touchpad" text in the Mouse & touchpad section of the Windows Settings.

To see and customize these gestures, you will need to get to the Mouse Properties window, look for a tab named ELAN, click on Elan Smart-Pad in the Device section then press the Options button and look around for the gesture options.

In case your touchpad dies for any reason what so ever, the quickest fix for this is to use a mouse, head to the Mouse Properties windows, click on the Elan tab, select your touchpad and press the Enable device button. 

In case you don't have a mouse at hand, you can do it with just your keyboard: press the Win button to open the start menu, then start typing Mouse & touchpad until the option with the same name appears and press Enter. You will see a Windows Settings window; press tab until the cursor gets to Additional mouse options and press Enter. 

A new window will open up, press the Tab key to navigate the cursor around and once you reach the tabs from the top of the window, go to Elan. Again, use the Tab key to navigate to enable the device.

Update your drivers

I'm using a 2017 Dell Latitude and when I tried to update the touchpad driver, I was told that the driver was up-to-date; the driver is from 2006. So, the odds are your touchpad driver is current and not the source of your touchpad problems. Still, it's worth checking if your touchpad is acting up. To do so, search for Device Manager, open it, go to Mice and other pointing devices, and find your touchpad (mine is labeled HID-compliant mouse, but yours may be named something else). Right-click on your touchpad and click Update Driver Software.

Your laptop will check the internet for updated driver software and, hopefully, update accordingly. If your computer can't find an updated driver, you may need to look for the updated driver by yourself. Look at the downloads sections of your laptop manufacturer's website or just Google "[LAPTOP MODEL] Windows 10 touchpad driver." You may need to uninstall your old touchpad driver (Device Manger, right-click on touchpad, Uninstall) before installing the new driver.

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