I recently purchased a laptop from Microsoft (2015 Dell XPS 13") that uses the Microsoft Precision Touchpad. There are a few issues I'm having with this touchpad that I've never noticed with other laptops and I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing these or if there are any fixes. There is a noticeable delay when trying to make slow light movements. My finger can move several millimeters before the cursor responds. It may not sound like much, but if you're trying to make subtle movements in photoshop, or select a specific character anywhere it's very noticeable and difficult to use. The majority of the time when I lift my finger the cursor will jump several pixels, often moving away from the object I'm trying to target. If you use any browser besides IE, two finger scrolling is very choppy and has a similar delay that's experienced in the first issue. There are a few other minor annoyances, like poor palm detection and using two hands (one to move the cursor and one to click with) but the issues above are the biggest annoyances, ordered by most annoying to least. If anyone has any ways to fix these issues or install different drivers, I'd love to hear about them. Thanks!

The only changes I made were to set "CurtainDismissDistance" and "CurtainDismissTime" to 0. What I noticed was that there was no longer any delay (spatial or temporal) in cursor moving with respect to me moving my finger on the trackpad.

Those registry keys have no effect on cursor movement. Can you try experimenting with other values and see if you actually experience a difference?

All I can say is that I DEFINITELY saw a difference in cursor behavior after changing those keys. I'm certain since I've been annoyed with the default behavior for two years! Whether the change was caused by changing the keys, or just coincidental and related to something else, I obviously don't know. Evidence supporting your statement: I've changed the keys back to default values, but the new (better) behavior persists, oddly enough! For better or worse, I can't replicate the original lag I had experienced for so long.

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I recently purchased a laptop from Microsoft (2015 Dell XPS 13") that uses the Microsoft Precision Touchpad.

There are a few issues I'm having with this touchpad that I've never noticed with other laptops and I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing these or if there are any fixes.

There is a noticeable delay when trying to make slow light movements. My finger can move several millimeters before the cursor responds. It may not sound like much, but if you're trying to make subtle movements in photoshop, or select a specific character anywhere it's very noticeable and difficult to use.
The majority of the time when I lift my finger the cursor will jump several pixels, often moving away from the object I'm trying to target.
If you use any browser besides IE, two finger scrolling is very choppy and has a similar delay that's experienced in the first issue.

There are a few other minor annoyances, like poor palm detection and using two hands (one to move the cursor and one to click with) but the issues above are the biggest annoyances, ordered by most annoying to least.

If anyone has any ways to fix these issues or install different drivers, I'd love to hear about them.

Thanks!

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2018-01-06T06:08:49+00:00

The only changes I made were to set "CurtainDismissDistance" and "CurtainDismissTime" to 0. What I noticed was that there was no longer any delay (spatial or temporal) in cursor moving with respect to me moving my finger on the trackpad.
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2018-01-08T04:46:08+00:00

Those registry keys have no effect on cursor movement. Can you try experimenting with other values and see if you actually experience a difference?
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2018-01-24T04:15:11+00:00

All I can say is that I DEFINITELY saw a difference in cursor behavior after changing those keys. I'm certain since I've been annoyed with the default behavior for two years! Whether the change was caused by changing the keys, or just coincidental and related to something else, I obviously don't know.

Evidence supporting your statement: I've changed the keys back to default values, but the new (better) behavior persists, oddly enough! For better or worse, I can't replicate the original lag I had experienced for so long.
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