Win 8.1 frustrations

I'm about to go do crazy over this. I just got in a Gigabyte P27g. It's my first time to use 8.1. My problem is the Charms bar keeps popping up when I use the track pad. I've disabled corners under Windows settings, disabled all of it under Classic Shell, disabled edge settings under the Synaptics TouchPad options and even installed Charm Killer. The damn thing still randomly pops out when I move from right to left on the trackpad. What do I need to do to stop this?

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1) Press start, then Type "PC Settings" (without the quotation marks), then click on the PC Settings icon

2) In the left plane, click PC AND DEVICEs

3) Click Corners and Edges from the left pane

4) Turn off "When I swipe in from the left edge, switch between many recent apps instead of showing a list of them"

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That action is controlled by the trackpad driver. Under control panel > Mouse you may find a tab added by the trackpad maker with edge swipe options.

 

I've already done both of these suggestions before I posted. I'm still b having issues with it.

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If you found something that clearly, in your native language, indicated it would disable EDGE SWIPES, and edge swipes are still happening, then you have a defective device.

It's some variation on one of these: Touchpad Edge Swipes - Enable or Disable in Windows 8

 

My Synaptic settings have "Edge Motion" settings, but not "Edge Swipe".

I'm running driver 18.0.5.0

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I have a ThinkPad with the 18.0.7 drivers and I have clearly marked Gestures > One finger edge swipe.

We should see a screenshot of your Synaptics control panel.

 

According to Gigabyte, you have beta drivers. This.. invalidates a lot of assumptions. You are clearly missing options that I see on my other laptops.

Synaptics has a generic V17 driver here: Drivers – Synaptics

I know this one has the proper edge swipe disable, as I've used it before.

 

I tried that one and the install failed. I uninstalled the beta first and ran it as admin, but it was a no go so I downloaded and installed 18 again. Still no way to change it. Thanks for your help though.

 

For now I'm running it with no driver installed. Trackpad still works to move the cursor around, I don't use any gestures anyway.

 

you need to edit inf file to see all settings you want and then boot with driver signature check disabled.

 

Thanks, I'll check it out tonight.

 

Must be the driver problem.. Thats odd on Drivers Synaptics Page its 17.0.19, I have installed 17.0.6.13 for touch pad drivers with gestures, circa 8/28/2013 WHQL Driver, of course I have it saved on Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB drive,,What is 17.0.19 a XP Driver ? My Touch Pad is combined with Mouse in Control panel.


Look Here :

https://www.google.com/search?q=latest+synaptics+touchpad+driver&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=17.0.6.13






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The 17.0.6.13 didn't work for me. the install appeared to go ok, but upon rebooting it, the basic mouse driver was all that was loaded. And, I took a look at the .inf file. I don't see anything in it that was an obvious answer. Of course, I don't really know what I'm looking for either.

 

Well, you need very good skill of analyzing.
In that 17.0.6.13 the proper inf file is SynPD.inf. Look where is it situted and search same on similar in your OEM driver.
I found some reg settings there with keywords PULL or Edge PULL

I would start at asking S.SubZero to share his exported registry settings like "HKR,Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\Defaults\Right Edge Pull" and etc or HKR,Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right Edge Pull... AND his inf file for analyzing.
Also I would look at HKR,Software\Synaptics\SynTP\Defaults,EdgeMotion

Sorry for being kinda short in telling all these but tht's because I did this only for my Elantech touchpad, and I don't have Synaptics PLUS it takes some tie to search proper words in inf, and do right guesses of what to search.

 

Ok. I had already tried editing Right edge pull and the others in the registry based on what I found online. It didn't work for me.


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right Edge Pull]

"ActionType"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Left Edge Pull]

"ActionType"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right Edge Pull Extended Zone]

"ActionType"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Top Edge Pull]

"ActionType"=dword:00000000

 

That's why it is better so SubZero would disable it and then sent exported registry strings with values.

 

If the laptop is intentionally hiding the edge swipes options from Synaptics' official driver (which absolutely has the option) then I don't think registry hacks are gonna fix it either.

The laptop is clearly defective and you should see if it's under warranty.

 

I emailed Gigabyte tech support. The laptop is 1 week old and Newegg is out of stock. I hate to return it for something so trivial.

 

I have noticed one thing that is interesting. If you look in the Synaptics folder, installing the driver also installs videos for each of the gestures. When you look inside the folder on the driver disc, there are videos for the edge pull gestures. These were not, however, installed on the laptop.