How to "one tap and hold in order to drag" in Windows 10 with a touchpad

Question

I have an ACER laptop with Windows 10 and I've been struggling with one frustrating setting that I cannot change.

I use a touchpad for my work. In order to drag and move a scrollbar, I need to point the cursor over it and then double tap on it (holding the second tap).

I would like to be able to just single-tap (holding the second tap) on a scrollbar in order to move it.

How can I achieve this?

Solution

While both the mouse and touchpad are used for moving a pointer around a screen, these two are completely different devices with their own strengths and weaknesses (even when a PCs touchpad isn't as powerful as a Mac's with its multitude of multi-touch gestures). Instead of trying to apply mouse working patterns to your work with touchpad I would suggest you to try leveraging capabilities unique to touchpad to achieve desired outcome (i.e. scrolling a page).

Configuring one or two-finger scrolling might free you from your frustration so you would not have to interact with scrollbars any more.

Assuming that your touchpad is made by Synaptics you can access these settings by clicking Additional mouse options under Settings → Devices → Mouse and touchpad → Related settings.

Comments

[benJephunneh]

If you give maybe a short blurb about why the requested feature isn't desired such as @Máté Juhász's comment, I think your answer would be in tip-top shape. Otherwise, it seems like you're ignoring the question.

[Mr. Tao]

@benJephunneh I can see your point. I've added short explanation.