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  • Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here

  • So this is a video that's not one of my regular hardware videos

  • It's about something that has

  • plagued Windows laptops for a really long time

  • It's this issue that keeps popping up here and there, and it doesn't matter

  • if your laptop is new or old, or...

  • expensive or cheap, it doesn't matter, because you can still have this issue

  • It's the trackpad

  • There are Windows laptops out there, lots of them, that have

  • really crappy trackpads, and that boils down to one thing...

  • Software. If you have... great hardware

  • like this one, glass surface, great button mechanics...

  • But... It's got crappy software. It's running Elan drivers

  • And, if you're one of those laptop owners that's running

  • something with an Elan driver or Synaptics driver

  • You're not having a good time with the trackpad

  • At least, you can have a better time with the trackpad

  • using Windows Precision drivers.

  • And this video explains how to put those drivers onto your existing laptop

  • So first you have to figure out whether your laptop is running Elan drivers

  • or Synaptics drivers, and to do that, you just go to Control Panel

  • Check out the Device Manager and you'll be able to see what you're running

  • And if you're not running either one of those two,

  • you're either running Windows Precision drivers already

  • Or you're running something weird that this video can't help you with

  • Okay, once you have figured which one you have, either Elan or Synaptics,

  • You download one of the two files that are linked in the video description

  • One is for people with Synaptics trackpads, and the other's for the people

  • with Elan trackpads, and depending on which one you have,

  • you just download the appropriate one. But in case you're wondering

  • Both of these files are actually from Lenovo; they weren't meant for

  • this kind of "hack" that we're doing. They were meant for something else obviously

  • But, it worked perfectly for this kind of replacement

  • of the Synaptics or Elan trackpad drivers

  • So, once you have the file, you extract it by either running the

  • "exe" or unzipping it, and it will place all the files

  • into a folder called "Drivers" in a route, and then

  • you go into your Device Manager again, right-click your trackpad

  • whether it is the Elan one or Synaptics one, and then you go

  • "Update driver", "Browse my computer"

  • Choose "Let me pick" and then click on "Have disk"

  • Now if you have a laptop with Elan driver, you go for the "ETD.inf" file

  • And for the laptops with Synaptics trackpad,

  • choose the Synaptics driver. So basically, you're replacing

  • the existing drivers on your laptop, whether they be Elan or Synaptics,

  • and you're replacing them with Windows Precision touchpad drivers

  • which are SO MUCH better, and the biggest difference you'll notice

  • is, I mean tracking is smooth and everything

  • Tracking is just much more accurate with Windows Precision drivers

  • But the big one is gestures

  • Being able to use the Windows 10 gestures both accurately and reliably

  • makes the trackpad so much better

  • Okay, before you run off to do this, I need to leave a couple kind of disclaimers with you

  • First, you do this at your own risk

  • I've obviously tested this on many computers

  • Probably 40, maybe 50 laptops, and for

  • the laptop that has worked on, they have been great

  • But for the ones it didn't work on, they exploded.

  • No, for the ones that didn't work on, the drivers

  • just won't update. Windows will be like,

  • "Sorry bud, we can't take these drivers," and that's the end of that

  • But the other thing you have to keep in mind is that, you can't

  • let Windows overwrite your new drivers with like an automatic Windows update

  • That's very, very annoying, because sometimes you won't even know that it is updated

  • And all of the sudden, the trackpad's gone back to its

  • old, disgusting self, and you'll have to figure out that

  • Hey, it's because Windows overwrote it

  • And you'll have to redo the process, so you just need to make sure that

  • you're downloading the appropriate update

  • You don't wanna download something that's like, the new Elan, or the new

  • Synaptics driver. You wanna avoid those

  • And, the other thing to keep in mind is that,

  • If you want to, you should probably backup or find a backup

  • of your old existing drivers

  • In case if you wanna revert back to them, so go to your manufacturer

  • Download that driver in advance before you do any of this stuff,

  • before you try.

  • Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video! I really hope this was helpful because...

  • (sigh)

  • This has existed for probably over a year

  • Kind of, it's gone better over time especially with

  • the new Lenovo driver that's just recently came out like maybe,

  • two to three weeks ago, it's way better now.

  • This works on a lot of laptops, enjoy.

  • Okay, thumbs if you liked this video, subs if you loved it.

  • See you guys next time!

Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here

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