Touch pad disable feature

On the HP ENVY 4 Notebook PC There is a  feature which  disables and re-enables the touchpad by tapping twice in the top left-hand corner (where there is a small grey rectangle to indicate the position to tap to tun the touchpad off and on). What is the procedure for disabling this feature? (I find I often accidentally disable the touchpad accidentally and would rather the feature was switched off)
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Hi,
Open windows Control Panel and open Synaptics ( you can also access this via Mouse....Settings tab....Settings button ).  The option you need to disable is' 'Double tap to disable touchpad' - the exact location of this setting can vary depending on the Synaptics version you have and to some degree the hardware.  An example of its location in Synaptics 8.1 can be seen in the image below - just remove the highlighted check mark, click Close and then Click Apply.
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