If you’re not a fan of the touchpad-based swipe gestures in Windows 8 there is a way to completely disable them and reclaim your touchpad.

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问题

超级用户读者Matsemann对其Windows 8笔记本电脑上的刷卡手势并不那么兴奋：

I have an ASUS G75VW laptop with a Synaptic touchpad (/trackpad). When I move my finger from one edge towards the middle (the swipe), Windows 8 will bring up different stuff.

This is a problem because the area where I can actually move the mouse with my finger is too **all (or, I mostly use the top left of the touchpad). So I often end up doing a swipe and bringing up some menu, or to do the swipe so slow that no menu is appearing but the mouse pointer is also not moving when I move my finger. Quite annoying.

When swiping from left edge it earlier swapped apps like crazy. I disabled that, so now it only brings up the same menu as pressing win+tab (or some times the charms bar, I never know which). I could change that by:

Win+I → Change PC settings → General → When I swipe from the left edge, switch directly to my most recent app.

I’ve tried Mouse settings in Control Panel, driver settings for my touchpad and searching for swipe and gestures on my computer (which was what led me to the setting above) with no luck.

How can I disable the swipe gestures, or change what they do?

我们当然可以感同身受，触摸板是不够挑剔，没有额外的功能分层在他们之上。

答案

几个超级用户贡献者解释了他们是如何使用各种笔记本电脑**商提供的工具禁用刷卡手势的，但贡献者Daniel B.提供了一个基于注册表的解决方案，该解决方案适用于任何带有synaptic touchpad的笔记本电脑：

Doing this involves editing the registry, it is recommended to do a manual system restore point before doing this.

You will need to make a file called gestures.reg, open notepad and paste the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right Edge Pull] "ActionType"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Left Edge Pull] "ActionType"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right Edge Pull Extended Zone] "ActionType"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Top Edge Pull] "ActionType"=dword:00000000

Save this file somewhere, with the .reg extension.

Now run it, some warning boxes may come up, you will need to press Yes when they do, after the operation has finished, reboot your PC and they should now be disabled.

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If you want to re-enable these gestures, then you will need to do the same but use the following text when saving the file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right Edge Pull] "ActionType"=dword:00000002 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Left Edge Pull] "ActionType"=dword:00000002 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right Edge Pull Extended Zone] "ActionType"=dword:00000002 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Top Edge Pull] "ActionType"=dword:00000002

如果您想禁用特定的手势或以其他方式编辑刷卡手势，建议通过**商提供的软件工具进行操作。查看SuperUser的完整讨论，了解其他贡献者对个人笔记本电脑的见解。