Try this; maybe it will work:
Control Panel>Mouse>UltraNav>TouchPad Settings>Application Gestures>Edge Swipes>Deselect “Enable Edge Swipes”
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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2013-04-15T04:33:55+00:00 Does anyone know how to do this on an Asus laptop?
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2013-04-14T18:28:25+00:00 I have an acer and I can't find "hardware and sound" but I do have a mouse icon in the control panel, but can't disable edge swipes... stupid windows 8
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2013-03-29T11:57:34+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!
I would very much like to turn these things off too but I have a Lenovo Ideapad and I cannot find the edge swipe options. I have followed the instructions above but I've clicked on every option under device setting> setting and I have not found it. I found Edge Motion but that does not seem to the correct item... any help would be very much appreciated.
Hi. Can I start by saying I'm clued up with some things, but really a novice compared to most of you guys on here. A BIG thanks to who wrote the original post above.
I have a new Lenovo G580 laptop and in the control panel mouse properties under the last tab I have an "Elan" smart pad. Under the tab there was a bullet ticked to say there was an icon in the system tray (that looks like a screen monitor of all things). When I double clicked on this icon in the hidden icons area it was there that I found the edge swipe setting. I've now disabled it and voila!! the side bar is now disabled via edge swipes. Thank f!*@ for that. This has driven me insane since day 1!!
Many thanks, and I hope this will help those with the new Lenovo Laptops. All the best. Jules.
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2013-03-18T16:58:31+00:00 i got a windows 8 Toshiba satellite C850 1GL laptop and cant disable the swipe it keeps changing screens. how do i disable it