How to disable tap to click on trackpad for Windows 8?

Anonymous
2013-01-06T19:59:33+00:00

I've had windows 8 for a while and disabling tap to click has become a priority for me but i cannot figure out how to do it. Its not the same as windows 7 or vista. When i am typing, sometimes my hand hits the pad on my laptop keyboard and it moves where i am typing and screws up everything. Please help, i want to disable the stupid Tap to click feature because i use a USB mouse.

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Anonymous
2014-08-26T17:51:47+00:00

No idea if you're still looking for the answer to this, but if anyone searches this question, hopefully they will find my answer!

Click on the little up arrow on the right hand side of your start menu (your open applications), right click on the little icon that looks like a touch pad (large rectangle on top of 2 smaller rectangles).  Select TouchPad properties.  Navigate to the Device Settings tab.  Select your touch pad device and click settings.  Select the "tapping" subcategory.  Unclick "enable tapping".

There, done.

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Anonymous
2013-04-13T14:32:18+00:00

i had the same problem, if you think you've tried everything (i thought id had as i just got a new laptop with windows 8, which takes some getting used to btw) i clicked the up arrow bottom right of the desktop next to the volume and network icons, and found an icon called ELAN pointing device (it looks like a grey box with 2 grey rectangles under it). i double clicked it and saw straight away the touchpad sensitivity setting. normally i wouldnt have commented about it but i have a feeling it will help alot of people out. just 30 mins ago i was on amazon and wanted to see the total cost of items in my basket inc delivery and before i got a chance to read anything the stupid touchpad sensitivity was so strong it hit the proceed with order button and the payment went through! luckily i was happy with the price in the end or i would have been so annoyed.

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Anonymous
2014-10-25T21:52:00+00:00

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! My laptop just downloaded 8.1 without my permission and I got the clicking touchpad. It was driving me crazy. I was all over the place where I didn't want to be. The right click on the touchpad icon worked perfectly after almost an hour trying to do it thru the control panel!

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Anonymous
2014-09-16T17:02:10+00:00

Go to the control panel and change the View by: setting to Large Icons... you need the full screen to see the View by:

Go to mouse in control panel and its the last tab called ClickPad Settings: Click on Disable internal pointing device when external USB pointing device is attached.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-08-28T05:19:28+00:00

    the steps to Enable the Disabled Touchpad.

    I think most of the pain of doing that was the first step, finding the Mouse Properties.  So I found a tip about expediting that.   This works on my Surface RT to get directly into the Mouse Properties Hardware tab.  On my Surface Pro it only opens up to the first tab (normally labeled Buttons) probably because I have Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center installed and it takes over the first tab.

    C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL main.cpl,,4

    So, I created a Desktop shortcut with that in it and pinned it to my Start Screen.   Now I will be able to at least start the above procedure more directly.

    C.f.

    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/143549-mouse-properties-shortcuts-create.html

    (BING search for

        "mouse properties" "main.cpl"

    )

    I actually first landed on the EightForums  with that search but couldn't use the tips there regarding the MUF Settings (better) alternatives.   Maybe the Surface screen cover will eventually be supported as a "modern" device.   ; }

    I still intend to have a go at creating a real toggle for this.  On the Surface Pro there is a lot more possibility for automating this using various keyboard macro tools for scripting support than on the RT.

    Edit:  Now I'm finding that I need to use  ,,3  instead on the RT?  WTH?  Have I lost a tab?  It's the Wheel!  I had an ArcTouch Mouse attached when I first started testing.   Oops.

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