How do I turn off the gesture swipe from my windows 8 laptop?

Anonymous
2012-12-29T22:23:55+00:00

I am trying to turn off the gesture swipe on my new laptop and no one seems to have an answer. I go online to look for an answer but it gives me some info to copy and use but it doesn't seem to work. Can someone PLEASE give me EXACT step by step directions on how to turn these gestures off? It's EXTREMELY annoying that while I'm playing a game or doing most anything at all that the charm bar opens or the most recent app bar opens!!! Not sure how much longer I can take this!!! Thanks

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Anonymous
2012-12-30T10:40:27+00:00

Hi Josh,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community!

I understand that you would like to turn off gesture swipe. I will definitely help you with this issue.

  1. What is the make and model of the laptop?

I would suggest you to follow the steps and check if it helps.

a. Press Windows Key +R, type Control Panel.

b.             Click on Hardware and Sound, select Mouse then right click and select device settings

c.              Click on Settings.

From there you can adjust a lot of track pad settings, including Disable Edge Swipes and check.

If the issue persists or if the settings are not present, I would suggest you to contact computer manufacturer for further assistance.

Hope this helps. Try the above steps and get back to us for further assistance. We will be happy to help you.

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Anonymous
2013-04-14T20:05:48+00:00

OK all you Sony Vaio users, you are absolutely right.  There is no way to turn off the gestures from the mouse settings.  But... I figured out how to do it without having to change the registry.  Go to your apps screen and click on "VAIO Control Center"  form there go to "Mouse and Keyboard",  At the top of the list you will see "Turn on/off touchpad" with an on/off slider under it.  To the right of it is a "Details" button.  Click it.  That will open up another box saying "Enable Multi-touch functions" In there you will see a selection for "Show Charm"  Uncheck that, and you will not have to worry about those accidental swipes again.  YAY!!!

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-07T02:34:48+00:00

    This worked perfectly! Thank you so much!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-18T16:12:11+00:00

    Please be polite in the microsoft community. By saying, "there wasn't an option for that through mouse properties and settings... I am growing impatient," you can be much more polite.

    go to control panel, and go to "synaptics touchpad 1.7" or whatever your version is (honestly it says touch-pad in the name so...). Then un-check any multi-gesture feature you don't want, hit apply and it will disable those features. For future reference all the touch pad settings are always through synaptics by default unless the market changes its standards. Mouse settings are for mice you plug in, not touch-pads.

    FOR ANYONE WHO IS HAVING TROUBLE TURNING THE SETTINGS ON, UNCHECK, APPLY, THEN re-CHECK, APPLY, AND THE MULTI-GESTURE FEATURES WILL BE RESTORED. I had a problem turning them back on after synaptics decided to stop working. Hitting the apply button "refreshed" the settings.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-18T16:20:26+00:00

    control panel\hardware and sound\synaptics touchpad (1.7 or whatever version)

    this is the menu to un-check whatever feature you are incapable of using properly. If this does not work, go to

    control panel\hardware and sound\device and printers\mouse and check out any and all settings looking for keywords such as settings,advanced settings, multi-gesture, swiping, etc.

    If you've checked completely and can't find something, then there must be a different program controlling the touchpad's multi-gesture probably and most likely in the hardware and sound category

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