How to disable gestures (charms bar, edge swipes, etc...) without changing the registry

Hi, I too have a a problem with the dreaded swipes......but when I look in control panel as you suggest I cant follow the same way as it warns that I am changing the registry, which I do not want to do.

Any suggestions out the will be welcome.

Christine

thank you, thank you, thank you!

I've had a Windows 8 laptop for a few days and the charms bar/settings pages that kept popping up out of nowhere were driving me absolutely insane.  BUT, I finally figured out how to turn them off. 

I went into control panel>hardware and sound>mouse>device settings>settings.  From there you can adjust a lot of the trackpad settings, including DISABLE EDGE SWIPES. 

I have a Toshiba Satellite with a synaptics mouse/trackpad, so i cant guarantee this works with all models, devices, etc. 

Windows 8 for laptop is now tolerable!  Hope this helps!

I would very much like to turn these things off too but I have a Lenovo Ideapad and I cannot find the edge swipe options.  I have followed the instructions above but I've clicked on every option under device setting> setting and I have not found it.  I found Edge Motion but that does not seem to the correct item...  any help would be very much appreciated. 

Hi. Can I start by saying I'm clued up with some things, but really a novice compared to most of you guys on here. A BIG thanks to who wrote the original post above.

 

I have a new Lenovo G580 laptop and in the control panel mouse properties under the last tab I have an "Elan" smart pad. Under the tab there was a bullet ticked to say there was an icon in the system tray (that looks like a screen monitor of all things). When I double clicked on this icon in the hidden icons area it was there that I found the edge swipe setting. I've now disabled it and voila!! the side bar is now disabled via edge swipes. Thank f!*@ for that. This has driven me insane since day 1!!

Many thanks, and I hope this will help those with the new Lenovo Laptops. All the best. Jules.

Hi, Just wanted to say a huge thanks. I have a brand new Asus K55VD and the never-say-die charm bar was killing me. Found the icon in the system tray as you said and adjusted settings. Genius, thanks mate :)

I also have a Toshiba Satellite (installed with the appalling Windows 8) and the constant charms bar irritation has also been driving me nuts (constantly coming up whenever I DON'T want it to - e.g. when trying to scroll up or down on a page).

 I followed your advice but the box "DISABLE EDGE SWIPES" is already ticked. Turning it on or off makes no difference to the utter excrement Charms Bar.

Help someone!  How can I either a) remove the Charms Bar or b) go back to an old (and much better) version of Windows?