Microsoft’s Precision Touchpad
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* [name=Ander Liu]

###### tags: `Windows`

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## Intro
* Microsoft has been trying to improve the touchpad experience on Windows 10 laptops.
* Laptops with “Precision Touchpads” are optimized by Microsoft, support standard gestures, and can be configured from the Settings app.

## Install
1. Check If You Already Have a Precision Touchpad
* Navigating to `Settings` > `Devices` > `Touchpad`
* If you don’t see “Your PC has a precision touchpad”—as in the screenshot below—your PC doesn’t have the Precision Touchpad
2. Check the Touchpad Manufactor
* Check from the `Device Manager`
* To open it, right-click the Start menu and select the `Device Manager`
* Expand the `Mice and other pointing options` category. Check to see whether you have a “Synaptics” or “ELAN” input device.
* If the name of the touchpad in Device Manager doesn’t give you an indication, double-click the device to open its properties window and check the listed manufacturer. Here, we can see that a device labeled simply “Dell Touchpad” is in fact a Synaptics input device.
3. Download the Driver
* Elan (經測試可行)
* http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=elan+wdf
* 請下載最新版本，for example, at 2023/9/13 最新版本為 16.21.28.2
* Synaptics (應該是不可用，請善用 Google 自行找到可用的驅動)
* https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n1mgx14w.zip
4. Extract the Driver
* After downloading the drivers, extract them to a temporary directory.
5. Install !!!
* Right-click the touchpad device under the `Mice and other pointing devices` category in `Device Manager`, and then select the `Update driver` command.
* Click the `Browse my computer for driver software` option.
* On the next page, click the `Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer` option.
* On the following page, click the `Have Disk` button at the bottom right corner of the window.
* In the `Install From Disk` window that appears, click the `Browse` button.
* Navigate to the temporary folder where you extracted the drivers.
* Select the `ETD.inf` or `Autorun.inf` file in that folder, and then click the `Open` button. Click `OK` afterwards.
* Select the `Synaptics Pointing Device` or `ELAN Pointing Device` option in the list of models, and then click the `Next` button.
* You’ll see a warning saying that Windows can’t verify that the driver is compatible with your hardware. This is normal. To continue with the process, click the “Yes” button.
* Windows automatically installs the driver. Restart your PC after the process is finished to activate your new Precision Touchpad drivers.
:::danger
For Elan, update `ELAN Miniport PTP Driver` by `ETDMiniPTP.inf` either. Or Precision Touchpad might not work.
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6. Reboot
7. Check whether Precision Touchpad is Installed

:::success
If all works well, :100: congratulations, you sucessfully installed Precision Touchpad
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## Reference
* https://www.howtogeek.com/325347/how-to-enable-microsofts-precision-touchpad-drivers-on-your-laptop/

## Homepage
* [Homepage](/@NDR/Homepage)