How do I prevent the action center from appearing whenever I left click on my touchpad?

Question

I just installed Windows 10 on my dell xps 13 a few weeks ago, and now whenever I left-click the Windows 10 Action Center will pop up whenever I left-click on my touchpad. I always need to left-click again to make it go away.

Is there a way to disable this from happening?

Solution 1

I had the same problem on my Dell xps12. updating the touchpad driver did not help. but found that simply by disabling then enabling the touchpad cleared the problem for me.

I used the following steps:

1. Right click in the start button.

2. Select Device Manager.

3. Select the touchpad and right click (I used an external mouse to do this)

4. Select Disable.

5. Confirm selection - touchpad is disabled

6. repeat above this time select enable touchpad

Solution 2

Just to share the solution I found - just disable the 4 finger gesture on the Touchpad settings (control panel > hardware > touchpad > tapping).

Comments

[Ricardo David Antonetti]

I just had this problem. These things did not work for me: I disabled and enabled the touchpad, restarted my laptop, and disabled and enabled the "Four-Finger Tap". However, this other thing seemed to have fixed it: I disabled the touchpad and restarted my laptop with the touchpad being disabled. When the laptop turned back on, the touchpad was enabled and everything was working as normal. I have not tried this in other laptops and I am not sure what made it work again. That is why I post this as a comment and not an answer.

[Burgi]

This could have been because the hardware was still using the older driver. Re-enabling the device would have forced it use the newer driver. A reboot would have had a similar effect

[Simon Poole]

I already have multi-finger tap gestures disabled in the control panel (presumably from the last time this happened to me) but it randomly started happening again when I switched on my laptop just now. Your post prompted me to try a 4-finger tap, which cured it (despite 4-finger tapping being disabled - go figure!)