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
    2013-12-09T17:27:38+00:00

    I was a bit wary about a download - glad it's worked for you. Many thanks to Winaero and techattend for  finally sorting this out for us all.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-12-10T04:11:38+00:00

    Thanks DevonPaddyB,

    I did everything you said above exactly as you wrote it out and restarted.  When the computer was completely up again and I swiped the right side, the charms bar came out.  Dang!!!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-12-10T04:17:39+00:00

    I am scared to try this "Charms Killer program.   http://winaero.com/download.php?view.72"

    I think that could be a virus or bad person trying to get into my computer.  What do you think?

    do you think that I could just go to Windows 7 or Windows XP??

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-12-10T06:06:07+00:00

    You have just made my day, thank you soooooo much, this has been driving me crazy! Now, thanks to you I can enjoy my new Toshiba laptop & relax :) Thanks again.

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