eliminate 'pinch zoom'

i have tried many ways to get rid of the pinch zoom feature. i'm willing to try again. i'll try anything short of throwing my laptop out the window. please help.
thank you.

@nush, Surely you just need to turn it off here? Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad, click on 'scroll & zoom' to expand it's options.

when i go to bluetooth and other devices there is no touchpad option

when i get touchpad in another way, there is no option to do what you ask

If there is any touchpad software (such as Synaptic touchpad), see if there is any setting there. Alternatively you can try uninstalling the software and restart.

i've tried synaptic as suggested; no go. thanks for your help. i suppose i'll have to live with it.

In my father's old laptop the touchpad was so sensitive that the cursor moved as he tried to type in Word. It could not be disabled, do he stuck a post-it on the touchpad and used a USB mouse. Desperate times call for desperate measures

spapakons said:

In my father's old laptop the touchpad was so sensitive that the cursor moved as he tried to type in Word. It could not be disabled, do he stuck a post-it on the touchpad and used a USB mouse. Desperate times call for desperate measures

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I had a Notebook sold by MCE [Media Computers] back in the mid-'90s I had to do that with, used doubled card stock. Then later Notebooks started having the Fn + Fx key combinations to turn it off, what my wife has to use to keep her thumb from doing things. Disabling in Device Manager may also help. This is for my rehabbed HP Laptop 15:

nush said:

i've tried synaptic as suggested; no go. thanks for your help. i suppose i'll have to live with it.

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Your specs say you have a Dell Latitude, but don't say which one.

My Latitude 5410 has an Alps touchpad. It appears in Device Manager under Human Interface Devices. There's also an icon in the system tray (if not, look in in 'show hidden icons').



If you go to Dell Support and enter your service tag you should be able to find the required drivers specific to your device, as I can for mine.




You may also find the Dell Touchpad Assistant, available from the Store, will help.

Yes, I know I could deactivate it from BIOS or Device Manager, but this is too advanced to teach my father doing that. If you remove the back cover you could also simply disconnect the touchpad flex cable, but I didn't want a permanent solution, I wanted to be able to activate it again when needed.

What my Dell Vostro 3400 Notebook has, no Fn + F key combination for hardware setting:

spapakons said:

Yes, I know I could deactivate it from BIOS or Device Manager, but this is too advanced to teach my father doing that. If you remove the back cover you could also simply disconnect the touchpad flex cable, but I didn't want a permanent solution, I wanted to be able to activate it again when needed.

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Try registry:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad

Dword32 (if it doesn’t exist, create it):

ZoomEnabled
0 = Disabled
ffffffff = Enabled

If this works, you can create reg keys for both options and then it can be done by just double clicking one.

*May need to restart explorer or log off/logon to take effect*

Or download Sordum’s tool, see if the info shows the command for pinch zoom that doesn’t show on your windows settings app and if so you can create a batch to toggle on/off

nush said:

i have tried many ways to get rid of the pinch zoom feature. i'm willing to try again. i'll try anything short of throwing my laptop out the window. please help.
thank you.

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Turn On or Off Pinch to Zoom on Touchpad in Windows 11 Tutorial

Check above tutorial.

If the options do not exist, you may want to consider a repair/install.