No option to disable "smartsense" in synaptics touchpad driver

windows drivers synaptics-touchpad

7,467

Step 1:

In the Registry, go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTP\Defaults, and set the value of all string entries of the form PalmKms…, to 0. These values determine the amount of ms that the touchpad stays disabled after keyboard input has been detected.

Step 2:

Type WIN+R and start "regedit"

Confirm that you're an admin (a window may pop up).

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTP\Install

Change DeleteUserSettingsOnUpgrade from 1 to 0

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPCpl

Change RestoreAllDefaultsfrom 1 to 0

Now you can change the ClickPad-Settings (of course, they will not be deleted after a restart, and you can change them as many times as you want to)

Source: How to disable "Smartsense" on Synaptics Touchpad?

After you perform Step 1 and Step 2 you also want to navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTP\TouchPadPS2_2TM3139 and set PalmRT to 0.

After you completed all the above steps, you will have to restart your machine, in order for the changes to take affect.

7,467

get52

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

get52 over 1 year

I am unsure what to do a this point, I've tried multiple versions of synaptics and there is no option to remove smartsense for me.

Thank you
- Ramhound over 7 years
  
  What makes you think there should be an option to remove it? Your question as it's currently written is extremely broad. You should edit the question and reduce the scope of the question.
- get52 over 7 years
  
  Because there usually is, smartsense stops your touchpad when you type which is incredibly annoying.
- Ramhound over 7 years
  
  The option doesn't exist if you are using Windows 10
- Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 over 7 years
  
  Have you been over the the answer(s) here: superuser.com/questions/504571/use-touchpad-while-typing ? If so, what exactly did you try, and what were the results?
- Alexis Evelyn over 7 years
  
  Two questions, one, is that a screenshot of your computer? Two, if so, have you tried looking into what the gear icon does. I am sure you have tried it, but incase not...
- Ramhound over 7 years
  
  @SenorContento - It doesn't matter where the screenshot is from. The option, isn't suppose to be there, when its installed on a Windows 10 machine.
DavidPostill over 7 years

This duplicates another answer and adds no new content. Please don't post an answer unless you actually have something new to contribute.