Going nuts with my touchpad!

So today I forgot the freakin' Logitech G900 dongle so I have to use my touchpad, I feel like I'm paralyzed using it but I thought oh well, time to get used to it.

The thing is, when I am trying to scroll down on webpages in my browser, it is sometimes zooming in.

so I thought let me disable that zoom in/out gesture. In the control panel, there is no Synaptics icon, so I went to mouse, but there is no Synaptics tab as well although the driver is installed.

I then went into the folder where Synaptics is installed but there isn't any EXE that launches the settings.

I'm going nuts here, where are those settings? I am using the latest Synaptics Touchpad Driver v19.3.4.31

 

Does Control Panel > Mouse > Device Settings show anything? (That's how I got my Synaptics settings screen)

 

that just takes me to the device manager properties of the touchpad where you can disable or enable it or update the driver

 

Are you using Win10? It could be possible that Win10 just downloaded driver itself without GUI launcher etc. So download the driver elsewhere and install it.

P.S. One thing I really like about my touchpad is... that it has hardware Turn Off button next to it.

 

good suggestion, I just checked the driver in device manager, it's the same one I installed. Windows 10 couldn't have installed an update since this is the latest one. So I reinstalled the driver anyway but still the same thing.

I will try installing an older driver now

 

The older driver for my P870DM Synaptics Touchpad Driver v19.0.24.1 finishes instantly and doesn't actually install anything. So I gave up on this and went to the convenience store next to me and got me a Logitech m175 for $15 USD.

Can't use this crappy touchpad

 

Sorry, I am using Windows 7, still can't reproduce that issue

 

Nobody tried vertical mouses like this BTW? I wonder...

 

looks like an ice cream maker dude

 

My experience:

Windows 10 > NOTHING from synaptics gets install control panel wise for some reason, no matter which driver I try.

Windows 7 > Full synaptics control panel with all of the options it should have.

Still haven't figured out why. Also I feel like the touchpad on the P870DM was better than the DM2/3 in terms of the whole zooming in instead of scrolling thing.

 

Thanks to @Mr. Fox, he showed me that the Touchpad Settings are under PC Settings > Devices > Mouse & Touchpad

In Windows 10, the Synaptics Driver doesn't install its control panel anymore and the settings are now in the screenshot below.