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

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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

Try this; maybe it will work:

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

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Anonymous

2014-07-08T00:22:48+00:00

Thank you so much. This is the only thing that works. I hope that everyone with this annoying problem reads your advice.
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Anonymous

2014-07-11T04:05:03+00:00

I found a really good program that may help many of us:

http://www.anvisoft.com/onestart.html
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Anonymous

2014-07-11T11:45:47+00:00

Does it totally kill Charms? or is the bottom right corner still alive?
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Anonymous

2014-07-23T00:40:01+00:00

that works great for my mouse pad thanks, but when the cursor is in the lower right corner it flicks the charms on again. this is not a good feature.
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