Maybe your touchpad is working but something is off. You may be triggering unwanted taps or clicks with your wrist or one of your fingers. The touchpad might feel too sensitive or not sensitive enough. The speed of the cursor could be too fast or too slow. To resolve these issues, you’ll want to review and tweak your touchpad settings.
In Windows 10, go to Settings, click Devices, and select Touchpad. In Windows 11, head to Settings, click Bluetooth & devices, and then select Touchpad. The look and layout for the touchpad settings screen in Windows 10 and 11 differ, but most of the settings are the same.
If the touchpad cursor is moving too fast or too slow, move the slider at the top to adjust it. If the touchpad is responding to your taps and clicks too easily or not easily enough, go to Taps and click the drop-down menu for Touchpad sensitivity. You can then experiment among the four different options — Most sensitive, High sensitivity, Medium sensitivity, and Low sensitivity. In my case, I have a heavy touch and found that the sensitivity was too high, so I had to change it to low.
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Next, you’ll see four options that control different actions based on your taps. You’ll certainly want to keep the first option to tap with a single finger to single click. You’ll probably want to keep the next one for tapping with two fingers to right-click, as well as the third option for tapping twice and dragging to multi-select.
The fourth option is more of a judgment call. On my laptop, I kept accidentally pressing the lower right corner of the touchpad with my wrist or pinkie, resulting in a right-click menu popping up. For that reason, I disabled this one and now use only two fingers when I want to right-click.
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