How to Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10


If your Windows 10 PC (ex: laptop) has a built-in touchpad, you may want to enable or disable the tapping feature (aka: Tap to Click) as needed.

Tapping means quickly touching and then lifting your finger off the touchpad surface.

When tapping is enabled, a tap on the touchpad performs the actions of the left mouse button.

When tapping is disabled, the touchpad buttons are the only way to click from the touchpad.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable touchpad tapping (aka: Tap to Click) on demand for your account in Windows 10.

Touchpad tapping settings will vary from one device and driver to another, so your settings may be different than in this tutorial.

If you have something different, then please post screenshots. I'll be happy to include it in the tutorial for others.



Contents

  • Option One: Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping in Touchpad Settings
  • Option Two: Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping from Touchpad Notification Icon






OPTION ONE

Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping in Touchpad Settings


1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2 Click/tap on Touchpad on the left side, and click/tap on the Additional settings link under Related settings on the right side. (see screenshot below)

Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10-touchpad_tap_to_click_additional_settings-1.png

3 In the ClickPad Settings tab (name may vary), click/tap on the ClickPad Settings button. (see screenshot below)

Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10-touchpad_tap_to_click_additional_settings-2.png

4 Check (enable - default) or uncheck (disable) Tapping, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10-touchpad_tap_to_click_additional_settings-3.png

If you try to disable Tapping without having Clicking enabled, you will get the warning below until you do.
Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10-warning-2.png







OPTION TWO

Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping from Touchpad Notification Icon


1 Click/tap on the touchpad notification icon on the taskbar if you have the icon set to show. (see screenshots below)

2 Click/tap on Tap to Click to toggle tapping on (check - enable) or off (uncheck - disable) for what you want.

Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10-touchpad_tap_to_click_notification_icon-1.png Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10-touchpad_tap_to_click_notification_icon-2.png

If you try to disable Tapping without having Clicking enabled, you will get the warning below until you do.
Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping and Tap to Click in Windows 10-warning-1.png



That's it,
Shawn


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