Windows 8.1 touchpad three-finger-multitouch gesture gone

Question

Couple of days ago, i installed the Windows 8.1 Pro WMC and all of a sudden the touchpad gesture, which worked like a charm back in Win 8.1 preview, Win 8 and even Win 7, just stopped working.

I am talking about the "Three Finger Flick" feature, which is used to go back and forward in folders and/or internet browsers

at first i didnt even have the left edge pull feature, but then i added some values in this key into regedit, and now i have it

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Left Edge Pull]

I Googled that, i didnt know what to do by myself

and i dont know where to write and what to write anything in order to get the three finger flick back too

I installed various versions of drivers starting from about version 15 to the version 17.0.8.0 (the one that i currently have), and even though i have all the other gestures, taps and swipes working they are not in the device settings, there is no multitouch gestures in device settings so thats why i guess i have to write something in regedit, but again, i dont know what to write, and where to write.

please help me if you can

Solution 1

I discovered the same problem. I found a way to re-enable the gestures. To do this, go to mouse pointer settings and navigate to the touchpad section. Under advanced settings you can enable them again.

"drei finger" means 3 fingers. "Wischen" means "to hit" in this case, "tap".

Solution 2

Hey Guys I think I figured it out what you need to do is go to Local Disk C:\Program Files\Elantech once you're there will be a bunch of files and avi video files next try and find ETDSimpleUI there is also a ETDSimpleUI_Win8 do not click on the windows 8 one click on the ETDSimpleUI once you double click on that a menu should pop up and there will be a box for three finger gestures click on that and you'll have your three finger gestures back. It worked on my series 5 ultra touch.

Comments

[jonsca]

I think it's probably evident from the context, but providing a translation for "drei finger" etc. may be helpful.

[Lorenzo Von Matterhorn]

this is rather a dirty solution don't you think? what guarantee do you have the software will work as expected once you change the executable?