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

Anonymous
2012-12-23T17:49:41+00:00

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!

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Anonymous
2013-05-23T18:33:46+00:00

Try this; maybe it will work:

Control Panel>Mouse>UltraNav>TouchPad Settings>Application Gestures>Edge Swipes>Deselect “Enable Edge Swipes”

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-16T10:07:29+00:00

    You are my HERO. Thank you it's been killing me, if it was a full touch screen they would be extremely useful but on a track pad ... extremely annoying 

    Thank you

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-11T12:26:41+00:00

    oh god, this charm thing makes me feel like I'm dangling from a carnival ride.  god please stop it, please god stop it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-01T22:30:59+00:00
    1. On the Desktop Swipe to bring up the charm bar and select Settings.
    2. On the bottom of the Setting charm bar select Change PC Settings
    3. Now select PC and Devices
    4. Select Mouse and Touchpad
    5. look for Enable Swiping In From The Left Or Right, turn it off

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-02-20T01:07:34+00:00

    hi Chris, I think this fixed my problem.  I saw the monitor icon (lower right side) on bar across bottom of screen.  I never noticed this monitor icon before, but I was able to disable the charms bar.

    thank you!

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