Unexpected zooming/scrolling with G73 trackpad

So I've been using my G73 for at least a few weeks now and I've noticed a small issue with the trackpad. It does not make the computer unusable or anything. It's just annoying.

While using a single finger to move my mouse (using the trackpad), I'll occasionally see that instead of moving the mouse, the "cursor" becomes 4-directional cross-arrow and beginning zooming. Can be a little irritating...

Or sometime it starts scrolling my browser window when all I'm trying to do is move the mouse.

[Now I do know that you can scroll the windows by moving up/down the RIGHT side of the trackpad, but these problems seem to occur apart from this particular feature]

Am I just accidentally seeing a built-in feature that I don't understand how to use? Or is this out of the ordinary?

 

its Muti-touch Zoom, when it picks up more then 1 finger it triggers it.

it can be turned off in the Synaptic's control panel in mouse options device settings

 

either turn off the multi touch zoom button or try to learn to use the trackpad better.
I had the same problem for almost 3 weeks of use and finally I am getting better at using it and the multi touch zoom is actually a very nice feature

 

I turn that feature off in every Synaptics driver I have ever tried. I hate having the web page suddenly zoom up where there are three letters fitting in the whole browser window. I prefer to turn it off and use CTRL + and CTRL - to do my zooming. CTRL 0 will reset the zoom to default in case you didn't know that. I had to look that up due to my constant accidental zooming until I just turned that feature off.

 

You will have all this problems now and in the future since asus still do not fix the faulty/laggy/choppy/jumping/selfcontrol/nonresponsive touchpad driver. The issue do not affect all users and the way the issue become present in your system in totally random. One partial solution is disable all multitouch features, but still your touchpad will behave in a non-responsive way in time. Just wait for the (finally/sometimesinfuture) asus releases the fix.

BTW, welcome to the faulty-touchpad club and sneak around in the forum, there plenty of threads about the same.

 

I do too.

This happens often, and when using the tip of a single finger.

Thanks for welcoming me to the club. I will try turning these features off and see how that works out.

 

Even if you turn it off it seems it becomes unresponsive from time to time. Right now this is my only issue with this laptop. After all the bios fixes and stuff i had to do to make it perfect. If ASUS Finally fixes this, this would be the perfect laptop.

 

I am a member of this club as well... unfortunately. I have tried different drivers and played with all of the settings and the touchpad remains flaky. Typing in a webpage seems to make it worse (when the pointer changes to a cursor) at times the pad will almost stop completely. Last night while using it I could not click tap anything and could barely move the pointer, very frustrating. For me it seems to get worse with the more windows I have open. It will also abruptly move right across the screen at times.

 

This happened just a moment ago:

My computer was in sleep mode. I opened the lid and hit spacebar to wakeup my computer. The system took a few seconds to come to life, but I noticed the trackpad was taking a bit longer (was not responding at all).

A few seconds later the trackpad began to function, but strangely. The cursor would only move enough that I could tell it was reacting. Then it would dart in some random direction. It basically appeared to be having a little cursor seizure in small blips or moments.

 

Experienced this too! but then i noticed a part of my other finger on top of the touchpad. i think it reads the other finger by accident maybe thats wht it makes a zoom or a scroll movement. did i make sense?

 

Don't revive an ancient thread. There's a over 20 pages long thread dedicated to address this problem by Gary Key from ASUs.

 

when it occurs i just use the TP right-click button. This action just makes the TP works correctly again ... until the next freeze... But as someone said, i just learnt how to use the TP and now it does not occur that much!