Dell Touchpad Settings Missing
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Dell Touchpad Not Working Overview
Touchpad settings missing I have been using my laptop for a while, it came with windows 10, it has always had the problem that sometimes the touchpad stopped working, but i just restarted it and it kept working fine. Touchpad icon missing on Windows 10. While many of the users are searching a way to get rid of touch pad icon, some of the users are searching a way to fix missing touchpad icon of their ASUS and dell latitude / inspiron PC's. So, if you are too searching for a way to get back missing touchpad icon on system tray of windows. On a Dell laptop, there’s a “Dell Touchpad” tab. On that tab, we can click the “Click here to show Dell Touchpad Settings” link. This opens Dell’s Pointing Devices tool, where we can click the “Default” button to reset the touchpad settings configured here.
After you upgrade your Dell laptop such as Vostro 3459, Inspiron 15 5000 to Windows 10, the touchpad cannot work properly. When you touch the touchpad with your finger, the cursor has no response or disappeared. And the two touchpad buttons also have no response. So the laptop touchpad loses efficacy.
And sometimes after upgrading to Windows 10, the touchpad is not recognized by Windows 10 and shows a yellow exclamation in device manager. So if your Dell touchpad does not work on Windows 10 or the touchpad is not recognized by Windows 10, you can try to use the solution of updating Windows 10 touchpad driver to solve it.
How to Fix Dell Touchpad Stops Working Issue
In some condition, maybe you think maybe your touchpad function is disabled by yourself. But you cannot find the option to enable touchpad in mouse settings or touchpad settings, because your touchpad setting control is missing. You can also reinstall the touchpad driver to solve it. After that, you can enable and disable the touchpad as you wish.
Solutions:
Solution 1: Enable Dell TouchPad in Windows 10
Many people may not know how to disable or enable the Dell touchpad, such as the Dell Vostro 3459. The Fn + F12 shortcuts will not work to disable the touchpad. So you need to use Dell pointing devices to control it. If you cannot find the Dell touchpad pointing devices, you should use solution 1 and solution 2 to update the touchpad driver.
Step 1: Right-click the touchpad icon, and choose Touchpad Properties.
This will help you to enter the Dell Pointing Devices settings.
Step 2: Click the Touchpad On status to open the Touchpad function. After that, you can use the TouchPad as the mouse.
Of course, you can click Touchpad Off to disable Dell touchpad function. So you will not get in touch with it when you use the built-in keyboard to type something.
If you cannot find the Dell touchpad pointing devices, follow the next solutions to update the touchpad driver.
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Solution 2: Uninstall Dell TouchPad Driver
If your Dell touchpad gestures/scrolling/pointer out of work after upgrading the system to Windows 10, maybe you can try to uninstall the Dell touchpad driver.
1. Goes to device manager.
2. Expand Mice and other pointing devices, find Dell Touchpad, click Uninstall device.
3. Go to control panel > programs and features to uninstall Dell Touchpad.
4. Do not restart your computer, try to update the Dell touchpad driver again. If you do not know how to update it, follow the next two solutions.
Solution 3: Update Dell TouchPad Driver Manually for Windows 10
The manually way will be some complex and take some time. If you do not want use this way, you can try to go ahead to solution 4.
Step 1: Enter Dell drivers download center.
Step 2: You can type the laptop device id or choose from all products to find the laptop. After that, you will enter the laptop manage webpage such as this is Vostro 3459 support web. Here it can diagnostic your computer, download drivers and manuals, view the support topics.
Step 3: Choose Drivers & downloads tab in the left. In the right window, choose Find it myself. Of course, you can choose Guide me to automatically detect for your touchpad driver.
Step 4: The webpage will automatically help you to detect your system, here is Windows 10 64 bit. If you want to download touchpad for Windows 10 32 bit, you can click Change OS to select the right system type.
And for the touchpad downloading, you need to select Mouse, Keyboard & Input Devices option from the category drop-down list. After that, the touchpad driver will list below.
Step 5: Download the latest version of Dell touchpad driver. Here you can see the touchpad driver file is Input_Driver_KXG38_WN32_19.0.15.2_A01.exe. It is a Dell Synaptics pointing device driver.
After the download finished, you can install it step by step.
The touchpad driver is a synaptics pointing device driver. And then, restart the computer to make it work. Then you can test your touchpad to see if it works.
Solution 4: Download Dell TouchPad Driver Automatically
For downloading Windows 10 Dell touchpad driver and updating it automatically, you can use Driver Booster to help you.
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You can get it from here: Download Driver Booster.
After that, install and run it on your Dell laptop. You can follow these steps to download Dell touchpad driver: Scan > Update.
After that, install the driver including Dell touchpad device, then restart computer. This way will be easier because only need 2 clicks your Dell touchpad driver will up-to-date.
After you updated the Dell touchpad driver for Windows 10, the touchpad icon will appear in the taskbar. So you can use it to set the touchpad enable or disable.
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Modern Windows laptops are equipped with better touchpads. Windows 10 supports close to a dozen of touchpad gestures, and these new touchpad gestures help you get your job done faster.
One can turn on or off and configure various touchpad settings in Windows 10 provided that the right touchpad driver is installed. For example, you can configure the touchpad to launch Cortana with three finger tap.
If you have changed many settings of the touchpad or if the touchpad is not working well, you can try resetting touchpad settings to factory defaults.
In this guide, we will see how to reset touchpad settings to defaults without using any third-party tool.
Method 1 of 2
Reset touchpad to default settings via Settings in Windows 10
Note that only laptops that have precision touchpads offer the the option to reset the touchpad via the Settings app. If you cannot reset the touchapd via this method, check out the directions in Method 2 (scroll down to see) of this guide.
Step 1: Navigate to the Settings app > Devices > Touchpad.
Step 2: Scroll down the page to see Reset your touchpad section. Here, click on the Reset button to touchpad settings and gestures to defaults.
NOTE: If you cannot see the Reset your touchpad section, it’s either because your laptop doesn’t have precision touchpad or touchpad driver is not installed. Refer to Method 2 of this guide (scroll down to see) to manually reset the touchpad settings to their defaults.
Method 2 of 2
Resetting Windows 10 touchpad settings
Please note that this guide is for Synaptics touchpads but the instructions are more or less the same for other touchpads as well. So, irrespective of the touchpad on your Windows 10 laptop, you can follow these directions to reset the touchpad.
Step 1:Open Settings app. Navigate to Devices > Mouse & touchpad.
Step 2: Under Related settings, click Additional mouse options link to open the classic Mouse Properties dialog.
Step 3: Switch to the last tab labeled after your laptop’s OEM name or touchpad manufacturer’s name. In my ThinkPad, the last tab is ThinkPad.
On your PC, the last tab could be ClickPad, ClickPad settings or Device Settings.
Step 4: Click Settings (see the picture above) to open touchpad Control Panel or similar window with all touchpad settings.
Step 5: Under the General or Advanced tab, you will find Restore All Defaults button. Click Restore All Defaults, and then click OK when you see the confirmation dialog to reset all touchpad settings to factory defaults.
You can open the touchpad control panel again to configure touchpad gestures and other settings.
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You might also like to read our 3 ways to disable touchpad in Windows 10 guide.