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.

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See you guys next time!