Disabling tap to click in generic mouse driver

[fb14]

Has anyone found a way to disable the annoying tap-to-click on touchpads in Windows 7's generic mouse driver? Although people have been asking Microsoft this since 2009 (at least), their only answer is to tell people to use the manufacturer's driver, but most manufacturers don't have one. The culprit is poor design by Microsoft - tap-to-click is on by default for every touchpad in every version of Windows, even though everyone hates it. Does anyone have a workaround?

 

[jr9]

Manufacturers will ALWAYS provide touchpad drivers for the OS that the laptop shipped with. They also may have drivers for newer versions of Windows as well. If this was a Windows 10 laptop and you are trying to put 7 on it then that's another story. There is no reason why you should not be able to go to the manufacturer's site and download the touchpad drivers and use them to configure the touchpad settings.

Windows drivers installed automatically for the touchpad are only there to make it function at a basic level so you don't just have no working touchpad if you reinstall Windows. This is no replacement for the real manufacturer drivers. You will not find a way to disable point to click to my knowledge using basic MS drivers in Windows. Then again I've never done it because there'd be no excuse for sending a PC out of my shop that doesn't have the manufacturer touchpad drivers both installed and the configuration tool working.

 

[fb14]

Hi, thanks for getting back to me. I should have made clear that this is not a laptop touchpad, it is built into a PC keyboard. The manufacturer, Trust, don't do a custom driver for it at all, they just use the generic Microsoft mouse driver. (They were quite surprised that I thought there should be a custom driver, when I asked about it). This is also true of another touchpad for PC I have bought recently, from Jelly Comb, and many budget laptops. They work just fine with the MS driver, including multi-finger gestures and so on, but on some level Windows thinks they are mice, and so doesn't provide the tab with the touchpad configuration options.

It makes lots of sense for manufacturers to use the Microsoft driver rather than having to provide their own, in many ways it's easier for everyone, but unfortunately the Win 7 one at least is not well-written, and by the volume of people asking for a solution (but not getting one) on Microsoft's support website, it's a common problem, and also an issue in Win 8 and possibly 10.

I am buying touchpads for my PC because arthritis in my thumbs is starting to make it difficult for me to use a mouse comfortably. The PC is running a clean install of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit and is a year old.

 

[jr9]

I see, it is not a laptop touchpad. Windows will then automatically install mouse type drivers for it and give you no options to disable tap-to-click. Not only that but the manufacturer truly may not have drivers to use... However there are other products that may allow you to do this as they do have optional drivers. For example the premium Logitech Wireless Touchpad has this. Here is a review and if you scroll into it you can see a screenshot of the driver program.

https://www.everythingusb.com/logitech-wireless-touchpad-21509.html

Note the "tap to click" option in Gestures and Optional Drivers

The Touchpad T650 is another example of a touchpad that uses Setpoint drivers. These are expensive alternatives yes but I can't think of anything else right now if you can't use a mouse.