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Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here
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So this is a video that's not one of my regular hardware videos
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It's about something that has
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plagued Windows laptops for a really long time
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It's this issue that keeps popping up here and there, and it doesn't matter
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if your laptop is new or old, or...
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expensive or cheap, it doesn't matter, because you can still have this issue
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It's the trackpad
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There are Windows laptops out there, lots of them, that have
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really crappy trackpads, and that boils down to one thing...
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Software. If you have... great hardware
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like this one, glass surface, great button mechanics...
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But... It's got crappy software. It's running Elan drivers
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And, if you're one of those laptop owners that's running
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something with an Elan driver or Synaptics driver
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You're not having a good time with the trackpad
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At least, you can have a better time with the trackpad
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using Windows Precision drivers.
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And this video explains how to put those drivers onto your existing laptop
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So first you have to figure out whether your laptop is running Elan drivers
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or Synaptics drivers, and to do that, you just go to Control Panel
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Check out the Device Manager and you'll be able to see what you're running
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And if you're not running either one of those two,
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you're either running Windows Precision drivers already
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Or you're running something weird that this video can't help you with
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Okay, once you have figured which one you have, either Elan or Synaptics,
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You download one of the two files that are linked in the video description
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One is for people with Synaptics trackpads, and the other's for the people
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with Elan trackpads, and depending on which one you have,
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you just download the appropriate one. But in case you're wondering
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Both of these files are actually from Lenovo; they weren't meant for
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this kind of "hack" that we're doing. They were meant for something else obviously
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But, it worked perfectly for this kind of replacement
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of the Synaptics or Elan trackpad drivers
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So, once you have the file, you extract it by either running the
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"exe" or unzipping it, and it will place all the files
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into a folder called "Drivers" in a route, and then
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you go into your Device Manager again, right-click your trackpad
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whether it is the Elan one or Synaptics one, and then you go
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"Update driver", "Browse my computer"
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Choose "Let me pick" and then click on "Have disk"
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Now if you have a laptop with Elan driver, you go for the "ETD.inf" file
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And for the laptops with Synaptics trackpad,
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choose the Synaptics driver. So basically, you're replacing
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the existing drivers on your laptop, whether they be Elan or Synaptics,
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and you're replacing them with Windows Precision touchpad drivers
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which are SO MUCH better, and the biggest difference you'll notice
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is, I mean tracking is smooth and everything
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Tracking is just much more accurate with Windows Precision drivers
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But the big one is gestures
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Being able to use the Windows 10 gestures both accurately and reliably
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makes the trackpad so much better
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Okay, before you run off to do this, I need to leave a couple kind of disclaimers with you
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First, you do this at your own risk
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I've obviously tested this on many computers
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Probably 40, maybe 50 laptops, and for
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the laptop that has worked on, they have been great
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But for the ones it didn't work on, they exploded.
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No, for the ones that didn't work on, the drivers
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just won't update. Windows will be like,
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"Sorry bud, we can't take these drivers," and that's the end of that
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But the other thing you have to keep in mind is that, you can't
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let Windows overwrite your new drivers with like an automatic Windows update
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That's very, very annoying, because sometimes you won't even know that it is updated
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And all of the sudden, the trackpad's gone back to its
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old, disgusting self, and you'll have to figure out that
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Hey, it's because Windows overwrote it
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And you'll have to redo the process, so you just need to make sure that
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you're downloading the appropriate update
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You don't wanna download something that's like, the new Elan, or the new
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Synaptics driver. You wanna avoid those
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And, the other thing to keep in mind is that,
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If you want to, you should probably backup or find a backup
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of your old existing drivers
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In case if you wanna revert back to them, so go to your manufacturer
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Download that driver in advance before you do any of this stuff,
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before you try.
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Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video! I really hope this was helpful because...
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(sigh)
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This has existed for probably over a year
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Kind of, it's gone better over time especially with
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the new Lenovo driver that's just recently came out like maybe,
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two to three weeks ago, it's way better now.
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This works on a lot of laptops, enjoy.
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Okay, thumbs if you liked this video, subs if you loved it.
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See you guys next time!
