Windows 10 how to Disable Generic touchpad tap-to-click?

To disable the Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad feature, open the Touchpad tab in Mouse Properties.
Click Start , and then type mouse in the search field.
Click Change your mouse settings.
Click Additional mouse options.

Clicking on Additional mouse options
In Mouse Properties, click the Touchpad tab.
NOTE: Some HP Notebooks have an HP Control Zone tab. If your Notebook has this tab, open it and click HP Control Zone Disable.

Click Disable.
Clicking on Disable

Click Apply, and then click OK.

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Peter Barnett
VP of Product Strategy

Thanks but that only works for the internal touchpad which has it's own custom drivers, in my case Elan. It is also not so much the double tap, which it might be called but i'm not use to that name for it, but the normal tap-to-click.

Sorry if I did not make that clear in my original post.

Search and open Device Manager. Go to the Mice and pointing devices and expand it. Select your touchpad and disable the device. It won't bother you again. You could also disable it in BIOS (if there is such selection) or by key combination on your keyboard (if there is one that disables the touchpad). Of course this implies you will be using an external mouse or touchpad to do that.

I'm thinking I really wrote the intro question but very badly.... the problem IS the external touchpad is a generic, and thus uses the generic windows 10 HID mouse drivers, which work for touchpads, but the tap-to-click feature/gesture (when you tap the touchpad, not just the buttons) is stuck being on because, as a generic, there are no options to be able to turn it off.. I'm wondering if there is a way to turn it off or some custom generic drivers or anything.. the problem with the internal touchpad playing up in on location of the world only, is weird but something I wasn't asking about...


thanks anyway

my internal is an Elan but fair enough ^_^

and yeah, it's a cheap one, it's branded, but a cheap brand.. like a lot of things. HI8 Mini-wireless touchpad & keyboard.. so basically no name, cheap as hell brand. But apart from the driver tapping issue, it's a fairly solid bit of tec.

I tried to trace the inputs to see about doing a custom driver/hack but my skills in that field are limited and the driver seems to intercept the signal first, so it's claims it's just a mouse button press. I would need to get a intercept earlier to see anything or a way to just make the driver from scratch... which is slightly out of my field..

If it is external (attached with USB cable), then why don't you just disconnect it when not needed? Or make sure you place it away from the keyboard so you won't accidentally tap on it while typing on Word.

it's wireless via USB but that's not really a problem.. When it's being used, tap-to-click is always such an annoying thing that if you do a lot of detailed movements I keeps thinking you are clicking then you are in fact just moving.

See the model and part Number and Google for drivers. It could have a utility to control sensitivity.