Windows 10 turns re-sets personal settings

Frank1 said:

Windows 10 will reset my settings. First of all I have my system set to make IE my default brewers. But every time I click a link it will ask me if I want IE or Edge. One other thing. I dislike using the touch pad on my laptop so I have it set to disable the touch pad. I tried several different ways to disable it and it will work until I restart and then the mouse pad is active again. It's a real pain in the you-know-what. Does anyone know of a solution?

Have you disabled touchpad in device manager.

Frank1 said:

No I haven't but I was thinking about doing that. But if I did that and wanted to enable it for some reason, could I do it?

Yes, by re-enabling it in device manager.

If, for whatever reason, you do not have access to your external mouse, you can use the keyboard to navigate 90% of Windows.


A major benefit too, is learning to use the keyboard alone to navigate Windows. It increases your efficiency and/or your productivity incredibly when you learn all the keyboard shortcuts for various things.

I believe there are also programmatic/scriptable ways to enable & disable devices, I'll look into it a bit and if I find out, I'll come back and leave a post with an easy method to re-enable your touchpad when needed.