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    Touchpad - Since Windows 10 Upgrade

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by millertime, Feb 10, 2016.

  1. millertime

    millertime Notebook Consultant

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    hi all

    took the free upgrade to windows 10, now my touch pad is laggy as hell (not the scrolling issue here, the actual moving of the cursor - laggy as hell)

    I tried downloading and installing in 10 drivers from synaptics, and I think it helped a LITTLE, but still quite laggy

    on dells site it doesn't look like they have win 10 drivers...

    anyone know what the issue is?

    thank you
     
    millertime, Feb 10, 2016
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  2. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    The touchpad driver isn't supported well by Win 10. Perhaps a work around exists but it seems not yet.

    Easy solution is to pop off palm rest and disable the trackpad for good :) use external mouse!
     
    King of Interns, Feb 10, 2016
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  3. millertime

    millertime Notebook Consultant

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    ah that's a shame

    guess its the downside to our laptops being 6 years old, even if the performance still stands up to modern day machines, things like this will hurt us
     
    millertime, Feb 10, 2016
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    Gofspar Notebook Consultant

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    Mine works fine dude, windows 10 installed the driver for me and it works good.
     
    Gofspar, Feb 10, 2016
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  5. Mobius 1

    Mobius 1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The trackpad only works at around 30hz or less for me, the slow update speed is what's causing the trackpad to be sluggish/imprecise.

    Scrolling doesn't work, right click button doesn't work -____-


    What's funny is that when I first installed windows, trackpad works fine...
     
    Mobius 1, Feb 10, 2016
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