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

For a moment there I had hope! But alas. The ASUS 202 with win 8 and touchscreen doesn't seem to have a way to influence the touchpad (surely there must be a way to disable the touchscreen, can't imagine why anyone would want to mess up a lovely screen banging at something that can be done much faster by touchpad or keyboard. If someone finds a solution that works with the new Asus laptops, I hope they'll post -- and thank you for the suggestion, which may still lead to my finding a way to configure the touchpad.

Rhonda of the Mountain

To those desperate people with a Lenovo IdeaPad y500 or similar, you CAN edit the swipe options without editing the registry. Hooray!

There are other ways of getting to these settings, but here are some steps that work:

Go to the control panel (Windows key + R, type "control" and hit Enter).

Go to the mouse settings (type in "mouse" in the search bar at top-right)

Click on "Change Mouse Settings"

Click on the "Device Settings" tab (You should see the red Synaptics icon on that tab)

Make sure your click pad is highlighted and click on "Settings"

In the left menu, click on "Edge Swipe" and then un-check the "Enable Edge Swipes" box

Even if you don't have the exact same make and model as I do, check there anyway as you may find something similar to help you.

The charm bar swipe problem was driving me BANANAS until I figured it out, and I didn't really want to edit the registry on a brand new computer, so...

Hope this helps!

I bought a Lenovo Iaptop Z580 with Windows 8 four weeks ago. BIG MISTAKE! I can't get rid of this

(UN)charm(ING) black bar at the side and the popup clock which jumps out frequently and annoyingly

when I'm trying to get work done. Did Microsoft ever test this heap of junk on consumers before they

released it? I'll wait till next month, when they release Windows 8.1 (Blue), in the hope that they've actually listened to their customers and fixed these and other issues before I take the OS out.

If you install the default Windows touchpad drivers. then you don't have the features of the manufacturer's drivers. Which includes swipe. It's the easiest way to get rid of this annoying feature, which is NOT a Windows 8 feature.

 

If you have a synaptics touchpad and you don't have these options in the control panel, then you have to install the synaptics drivers.

http://drivers.synaptics.com/Synaptics_v16_3_15_1_C_XP32_Vista32_Win7-32_XP64_Vista64_Win7-64_Signed_Acme_Inc.zip

I can't get any of these suggestions to work on a Samsung DP700A3D-A01US PC. I have tried everything from downloading the synaptic drivers (Which I don’t think this PC supports anyways) and also editing the registry. Has anybody used this device and had a similar issue?