Devices Enable or Disable Touchpad Haptic Feedback on Microsoft Surface Devices

Brink · Aug 5, 2024

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off touchpad feedback for your account on Microsoft Surface devices running Windows 11.

The Surface Precision Haptic touchpad’s haptic motors deliver tactile feedback that simulates the feeling of physical clicks or taps, despite the touchpad itself remaining stationary. This gives you a more intuitive and immersive experience while using a Surface device.

You can specify the relative intensity level of the touchpad’s haptic feedback to what you want.

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Contents

Option One: Enable or Disable Touchpad Haptic Feedback in Settings
Option Two: Enable or Disable Touchpad Haptic Feedback using REG file

Option One

Enable or Disable Touchpad Haptic Feedback in Settings

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Bluetooth & devices on the left side, and click/tap on Touchpad on the right side. (see screenshot below)

Open Touchpad settings

3 Turn on (default) or off Touchpad feedback for what you want. (see screenshot below)

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

Option Two

Enable or Disable Touchpad Haptic Feedback using REG file

1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.

2 Enable Touchpad Haptic Feedback

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_ON_touchpad_haptic_feedback.reg

Download

(Contents of REG file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad]
"FeedbackEnabled"=dword:ffffffff

3 Disable Touchpad Haptic Feedback

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_OFF_touchpad_haptic_feedback.reg

Download

(Contents of REG file for reference)

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad]
"FeedbackEnabled"=dword:00000000

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 Either sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn Brink