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
    2015-02-07T11:45:01+00:00

    Thank you, those things were driving me bonkers

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-16T05:04:05+00:00

    I have a Dell laptop and I went to Control Panel --> Hardware & Sound --> Mouse (under Device Printers) --> Dell Touchpad --> Click to change Dell Touchpad settings (on bottom) --> Gestures --> Unclick Right Edge Swipe. Make sure to save the settings and that should disable it. Although, I might have to wait when I accidentally right edge swipe. For some reason, it only did it when I didn't want it, and then when I would deliberately try to bring up the Charms bar to see if there was some setting on the actual Charms bar it wouldn't work. -_- So, hopefully this fixed it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-08T04:56:16+00:00

    I did exactly as your video states, and still the charms menu appears. I also want to add my laptop running the horrific Windows 8.1 no longer installs any updates, it will download them but no installs for 9 months. Others are experiencing these problems you can Google them,  Microsoft refuses to come out with a fix.

    I have a screen shot of 9 months worth of failed update installs.

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