My Windows 10 laptop has a touchpad. Often, clicking the pad or even moving it will change the zoom on the browser screen. This especially occurs in Outlook. I want to disable this completely.
The settings do NOT provide for eliminating ZOOM. The driver is "HID-Compliant mouse on USB device" from MS. Driver version 10.0.15063.0
06/21/2006
mouclass.sys
mouhid.sys
Unfortunately, there is no tab for the touchpad and the mouse settings have no way of disabling zoom. There is no specific manufacturer for the mouse/ touchpad. I assume the files I listed above are MS Windows files, although a techie at the MS Disability desk denies that they are. This techie told me that my problem is a HARDWARE issue for which MS is not responsible. Of course this is so obviously a SOFTWARE issue.
Hardware drivers are the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer and the correct answer is to go to the laptop's specific support page to download and install the touchpad drivers which will then give you the option you seek to disable. If they don't have any for Windows 10 (which is what I suspect you are running), drivers for Windows 7 or 8 will work.
Let's see if we can find out what touchpad you actually have.
Right click on Start > Device Manager (DM) > click the arrow next to HID... then right click on the revealed device > Properties > Details tab, click the down arrow then click on Hardware IDs, right click the top line in the Value window and copy and paste it into your next reply.
If you don't see HID in DM is there anything else there that could be the trackpad ?
Because it is using the native driver, you don't have the normal options for a Synaptics/Elan/etc. touchpad so we need to roll up our sleeves, get brave, and pray a little.
First, do WinKey+R to open a Run Window. In it, type REGEDIT<enter> and allow it when the UAC prompt happens. In REGEDIT do Edit -> Find (or CTRL-F) and search for ZoomEnabled . Hopefully; it will appear in something like HCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchpad. If it is there, right-click on it, choose Modify, and change the value to 0 <zero> which should disable it. Reboot and see if that did the trick.
If the ZoomEnabled is not found by REGEDIT, Your only hope is to get in touch with EPIK and hope they will help you.
The OP has a 12.5" rather than a 14". There isn't a 12.5" shown on the site.
It also only has 2GB of RAM, which is criminal on a Windows 10 computer and a really cramped 32GB ssd. (16GB - 20GB will be taken up by the OS and not too much room left over for files).
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