Simply put, Samsung software is shit. The touch pad hardware is excellent, and even the drivers for it are great, but the software that ships to configure it is extremely limited.
Have you ever wished you could do crazy things like 3-finger-touch right click? Or maybe use the touch-pad while pressing keys? Probably not right? That all sounds WAYYY too hard and crazy for a user, or at least that’s what Samsung thinks.
Luckily you can change pretty much everything, the Elan driver is really feature-rich and configurable, if you know what to do.
So, to convert your touch-pad from usable to awesome:
1. Open regedit
- windows+r
- type ‘regedit’, press enter,
- Accept the prompt
2. Go to the honey pot of touchpad settings
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Software
- Elantech
- Smartpad
3. CHANGE ALL THE THINGS!
Want three finger right-click?
- change Tap_Three_Finger to 1
Want two finger middle-click?
- change Tap_Two_Finger to 2
(You can obviously swap 2 finger and 3 finger by swapping their values if you’re weird)
Want to be able to use the touch-pad while typing?
- Change DisableWhenType_Enable to 0
Just got windows 8.1 and lost the ability to have normal scrolling?
- Change SC_Reverse_Enable to 0
As you can see there’s a whole ton of settings that can be tweaked. I’m yet to play with everything I’ll want to tweak.
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