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Uncheck the “Enable” check box for Tapping. Select it and click on the “Options…” button. There should be an “ELAN” tab at the top. Once downloaded – go to CONTROL PANEL – MOUSE. Visit and click on the DISK icon for the 11.13.0.2 driver) If not, the Windows 8 specific functionality may not work. After you install the NEW Elan drivers, reboot. (If you do screw this up, uninstall all the drivers again by plugging in a USB mouse to your system, and then reinstall the new Elan drivers and you should recover fine.)Īfter you uninstall the OLD Elan drivers (if you had them) reboot. If you fail to do this step, the Control Panel tab for your touchpad will not display correctly. If you had previous ELAN drivers, uninstall them by going to CONTROL PANEL – PROGRAMS & FEATURES and get rid of anything that reads “ETD…” or “ELAN Technologies”. Things to remember before installing the driver: (Note: Once this driver is installed this is all configurable from Control Panel – Mouse.)

Diminish Sensitivity – Reduce the sensitivity of the touchpad.

Enable PalmTracking – Also known as Palm Rejection, prevent the pointer from moving when your palm accidentally rests on the touchpad.

Disable Drag & Drop – Prevent accidental movement of icons & highlighted content.

Disable Tapping – Stop the cursor from moving when you accidentally graze the touchpad.

Multitouch Scroll – Use two fingers to scroll up & down in a window.

Edge Swipe UP – “Reveal Windows 8 Configuration bar”.

Edge Swipe RIGHT – “Change foreground task in Windows 8””.

Edge Swipe LEFT – “Reveal Windows 8 Charms bar”.

If you have Windows 8 installed on a laptop with an Elan Touchpad on it such as many (not all) of the Samsung Series 9 ultrabooks, here’s a driver that will provide you with the following functionality on the touchpad: (See below if you have a Samsung Series 9 ultrabook that doesn’t have an Elan touchpad in it.) It’s clear that my last post about this was not clear enough based on all the pings I’m getting so, here’s attempt #2: Visit and download the 16.2.12.3 driver by clicking on the disk picture to initiate the download.

This will reveal the Charms bar on the right, the Configuration Bar on the bottom, and the Task Bar on the left of the screen.

I’ve gotten confirmation today that the Synaptics TouchPad drivers (v12.3) I’d originally linked to, when installed on Windows 8, do in fact provide Windows 8 Edge Swipe capabilities just as the Elan Drivers do below!