Charm bar Windows 8.1 Synaptic TouchPad V7.2 Help

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Happyhotspur

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I have had my new laptop for several months now and am really pleased with it however during this time I have spent countless hours trying to stop the charm bar from appearing whenever I seem to not expect it.
I have tried all the recommended methods to disable the charm bar from appear whenever I move my mouse to any corner but still whenever I move my mouse in any seemingly random direct the damn charm bar appears.
Is there any way of disabling it before I pull what's left of my rapidly diminishing hair is all gone.
This is by far the worst and most frustrating feature on any laptop I have ever owned, what were Microsoft thinking when the installed this useless piece of software for a laptop
Help please
 
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Happyhotspur

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Just an update on my charm bar problems. I posted on the Microsoft Community forum the same question and here is their reply:-
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Microsoft didn't include those functions with your mouse or touchpad. It was Synaptics corporation that decided that (or your OEM manufacturer that decided how to configure the touchpad's default settings). Microsoft neither builds or controls how the touchpads get set in the computers.
To turn it off, open the Synaptics touchpad options and turn off the edge swipe gestures.
I wish I could tell you how to get to them, but every company does it different. Dell puts it into the Mouse control panel as a 3rd party integrated tab. Toshiba makes you download a whole separate touchpad settings program to do it. This is why I only by Microsoft-made computers now that they finally offer them -- there's no gunk or stuff like this.

I have also asked Synaptics for a solution but as yet have received nothing back, so do I now ask PcSpecialist for help too?
 
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Happyhotspur said:
Just an update on my charm bar problems. I posted on the Microsoft Community forum the same question and here is their reply:-
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Microsoft didn't include those functions with your mouse or touchpad. It was Synaptics corporation that decided that (or your OEM manufacturer that decided how to configure the touchpad's default settings). Microsoft neither builds or controls how the touchpads get set in the computers.
To turn it off, open the Synaptics touchpad options and turn off the edge swipe gestures.
I wish I could tell you how to get to them, but every company does it different. Dell puts it into the Mouse control panel as a 3rd party integrated tab. Toshiba makes you download a whole separate touchpad settings program to do it. This is why I only by Microsoft-made computers now that they finally offer them -- there's no gunk or stuff like this.

I have also asked Synaptics for a solution but as yet have received nothing back, so do I now ask PcSpecialist for help too?
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PCS won't be able to do anything about it, it is a Synaptics issue, they seemed to take out edge swiping disabling in a recent update for some unknown reason.
 
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You can edit the synaptics registry values if you know how to use the registry editor?

Select run and type "regedit"

Then search for the values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\

Your looking for [right_edge_pull] and [left_edge_pull] and you need to set the "ActionType"=dword:00000000 to disable them
 
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Happyhotspur

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Thanks again SpyderTracks
Have given that a try but still the damn bar appears, I have sent Synaptics an e-mail with a copy of what Microsoft said and will see what they say.
Cheers
 
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Happyhotspur said:
Thanks again SpyderTracks
Have given that a try but still the damn bar appears, I have sent Synaptics an e-mail with a copy of what Microsoft said and will see what they say.
Cheers
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Would you be able to post back with their response? I'd be very interested also and I know a lot of other users would benefit from this.
 
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CirrusDesAigles

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Hi Folks,

Took delivery of my new PCS laptop this week and this particular issue is driving me insane, any ideas how to stop this happening? Disabled all the corners but the swipe thing doesn't seem to be curable. As you say, nothing in the setting for the touchpad to turn it off.
 
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topleya

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I would, but not usually practicle for me. I don't play at a desk, but on the sofa and design of sofa limits mouse usage.
 
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topleya

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I've been experimenting with this today but nothing has worked. I have done the following

Installed Win 7 drivers - Still, incredibly, had the charm function
Registry Edit - Suggestion from a few websites, this failed
Installing Previous Version - Seems that in v7.4, it had an option to disable this, but Synaptics removed it in v7.5. Installing failed for unknown reasons.
 
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Davecrm

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If like me your Synaptics Touchpad V7.5 on PS2 port pointing device settings doesn’t have an Enable Edge Swipe option and you have tried the various reg edits and removal programs try downloading this older driver from Synaptics http://drivers.synaptics.com/Synapt...7-32_XP64_Vista64_Win7-64_Signed_Acme_Inc.zip Run setup.exe after uninstalling your current driver, mine was V17.0.6.13 Restart laptop. Settings now displays an “Enable Edge Swipe ” box. Untick this, it a compromise though as it kills swipes from top left but not bottom right. At least I can select favourites in Chrome without the slightly annoying Charms. Acer E1-572 with W8.1.
 
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tonlev

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I have tried everything since getting my new laptop, Synaptic never answered my several e-mails and PCS couldn't help either, but after trolling several different forums somebody suggested the following
Control/Alt/Del and get the task Manager screen up. then scroll down to Synaptic Enhancements and disable it. It stops the charm bar from appearing however you have to manually do this every time you boot up your machine.

It does work and heaven no more bloody charm bar, but if you need it you can still access it by using the windows +C keys.

Hope this helps
 
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tonlev said:
I have tried everything since getting my new laptop, Synaptic never answered my several e-mails and PCS couldn't help either, but after trolling several different forums somebody suggested the following
Control/Alt/Del and get the task Manager screen up. then scroll down to Synaptic Enhancements and disable it. It stops the charm bar from appearing however you have to manually do this every time you boot up your machine.

It does work and heaven no more bloody charm bar, but if you need it you can still access it by using the windows +C keys.

Hope this helps
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You could stop the process from running at startup by adding it to msiconfig
 
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tonlev

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Thanks SpyderTracks, but could you explain how I would do that.

I did ask PCS but they have not replied to my e-mail I forgot it's bank holiday so nobody there to answer me, but if you could explain how I add it to msiconfig it would be appreciated.
 
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tonlev said:
Thanks SpyderTracks, but could you explain how I would do that.

I did ask PCS but they have not replied to my e-mail I forgot it's bank holiday so nobody there to answer me, but if you could explain how I add it to msiconfig it would be appreciated.
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Sure. If you go to the run box in windows 7, type msconfig and run it, go to the startup tab and search through processes that run at startup for the synaptics process in question, and disable it.

In Windows 8 it's done through TaskManager, so just to ctl, alt, delete at the same time, goto startup and disable the process through there.

Be warned, if you do any kind of windows repair, you need to reenable it beforehand or it can cause issues.
 
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