How to use Touchpad and Keyboard at the same time?

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If you lot tin can't effigy out a way to enable & use touchpad and keyboard at the same time, this trick shows you how to utilise Touchpad & Keyboard at the same fourth dimension on your Windows laptop. This issue is seen especially while playing games when y'all use a touchpad and keyboard and it fails to respond at the same fourth dimension.

How to utilise Touchpad & Keyboard at the aforementioned time

While playing a game, the PC disables touchpad whilst using the keyboard. The unwanted change really blunts your gaming experience. Switching to an older version of Synaptics clickpad drivers although solves the upshot to some extent, it makes the touchpad quite unresponsive. This is considering it isn't fully compatible with the hardware.

Turning downwards 'Palm Tracking' to minimum, doesn't work either. Here'south what yous can do,

Open the Registry Editor.
Get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE configuration central.
Expand the Software folder.
Scroll down to Synaptics folder.
Expand SynTP folder under it.
Cull Touchpad.
In its right-pane double-click on PalmDetectConfig to edit its value.
Change the value to '0'.

Press Win+R in combination to open the 'Run' dialog box.

In the empty field of the box, blazon 'regedit' and press 'Enter'.

Next, when the Registry Editor window opens, navigate to the following configuration key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Synaptics\SynTP

Thereafter, choose 'Touchpad' and switch to right-pane.

Here, double-click on the 'PalmDetectConfig' entry to edit its value.

When the Edit String box appears, change the value from the default value set to '0'.

When done, close the Registry Editor and exit.

Restart your computer.

Futurity, you should be in a position to use a touchpad and keyboard at the same time.

Related read: TouchPad gesture not working.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the unabridged mail & the comments first, create a Organisation Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be careful well-nigh any 3rd-political party offers while installing freeware.