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You won't always want to use a mouse with a laptop, and whether you call it a touchpad or a trackpad, it'll be your best friend in piloting your computer. Using a touchpad isn't as great as using a mouse, though; you don't have as much control, it can feel cheap, and — while the newer haptic touchpads are an improvement — you'd almost always want to use a mouse.
Still, your touchpad experience can be improved. There's nothing you can do if it just physically feels wrong , and then select what you'd like it to do. If it's a keyboard shortcut, you can record the sequence of keys, and they'll play out whenever you perform the gesture. There are a lot of useful custom gestures you can add to your daily routine. For example, you could set gestures for common keyboard shortcuts like CTRL + C to copy and CTRL + V to paste when you use a four-finger tap or bind your four-finger swipe to a key such as DEL or the backspace to make things easier. You could even set a shortcut for the function key + anything that you often use, such as muting your volume, changing it, or pausing a YouTube video.A mouse has two buttons with different uses: one to click whatever you're hovering on normally and the other to show additional options. For touchpads, this secondary right-click usually means pressing a mechanical button on the right side of the touchpad to actuate a click. If you have a cheap touchpad, this can be janky, where you either accidentally right-click when you want a simple click, or you can't right-click even when you want to. With newer laptops opting for better haptic touchpads, the more common way to right-click is now to tap with two fingers anywhere on your touchpad, a gesture that's turned on by default in Windows 11. You still have the option to right-click using the bottom right of the touchpad if you prefer that, but it's good to know what other options you have access to. Furthermore, if there's one way you prefer over the other and want to disable the one you don't use, there's a simple way to do so. Navigate to your settings, then"Bluetooth & devices," and then"Touchpad." Here, you can click on"Taps" to open a dropdown that shows what gestures are turned on, including the two different ways of right-clicking. Deselect the one that you want to disable, and you'll be set.We've talked about the usefulness that gestures provide and how you can change the default ones and even create custom gestures using keyboard presses. All of these gestures make your life easier by themselves, but you can combine them together to make your Windows navigation even more seamless. There's a lot you can do, such as turning your touchpad into a complete volume and music control hub. When you open up the gesture option dropdown menu on any one gesture, you can see functions such as turning the volume up or down and switching between music tracks. Alternatively, you can record a custom gesture using your keyboard's function keys to control the volume and tracks. Either way works, and it is simple to do once you get the hang of setting your own gestures. For example, you can set it so swiping three fingers up increases the volume and swiping them down lowers it. Similarly, you can make it so a three-finger swipe to the right means skip to the next track, and a swipe to the left takes you back to the previous one. You can also set it so a three-finger or four-finger tap mutes or pauses whatever is playing. These are all things you can do using your cursor and buttons on the screen, but being able to control everything to do with your audio and music from your touchpad makes navigation quicker and snappier.Gestures are nice and all, letting you have an alternate shorthand for doing things that would otherwise be just a bit more inconvenient. Not everyone has the same tastes, however, and a convenience to some might be something that only infuriates others. As such, if you find yourself accidentally using gestures that you don't plan on or just want an experience that you're used to without extra things to worry about, Microsoft gives you the ability to turn gestures off. To turn off specific gestures, you can go to"Bluetooth & devices" and then"Touchpad." You can turn off certain gestures from here — such as zooming, scrolling, normal taps, and two-finger taps — by simply deselecting the box beside them. For other gestures, you can click on each individual gesture — such as a tap or swipe — and open the dropdown menu beside it that shows different effects. From here, you can select"Nothing." To disable other gestures that you don't see on the main page, go to"Advanced gestures" under"Related settings," and you'll find a complete list of gestures. From here, disable any gesture that you don't like or disable them all to avoid the hassle of unintentional gestures entirely.
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