Touchpad Zoom

I want to disable the touchpad zoom on my laptop. It's super annoying and keeps zooming my emails in and out while I'm typing. The current driver for the device does not have a "pinch-zoom" check box in the Control Panel>Mouse>Mouse Properties>Device Settings, so I have not been able to remedy the issue with past postings advice.

manda0515 wrote:
Go to the touchpad icon on the taskbar and go to the pointing device properties . Go to the device settings tab, then click the settings button. On the left hand side there is a menu of items to select, click on pinch zoom and unclick the enable zoom box, press apply and ok. This should solve your problem
I signed up so I could actually thank manda0515,you may have got it from the person who made this topic, but you helped me with my zoom issue. Which was driving me mad, so thank you.

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Jerry, thank you, as well, for your less than helpful reply.
If you actually read my first post you would see that I had already tried to disable the pinch zoom feature using the taskbar icon and the device manager. And if you had read my other post you would see that I, as a follow-up, posted that pinch zoom apparently cannot be disabled with the particular Alps driver this computer uses.
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Out of curiosity, did you reply to up your post count? Or are you just a fan of talking...?
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Did you find Synaptics Clickpad in Control Panel? That is where all settings are for the touchpad.
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On a T400, who is the manufacturer of the touchpad?
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I have an Ideapad U430. I understand that Windows 8 is garbage but is there anyway to fix the touchpad zoom out problems with this laptop? How about keyboard issues with unresponsive keys? Windows 8 sidebar flying open? I would think that the hardware folks would pressure microsoft to have a minimally functioning operating system.
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if you don't like windows 8.1 then thats a personal issue.. i understand windows 8.0 sucked.. and yes it did.. surely..
but now we are in 2015 and though microsoft still screws up.. they did figure out that windows 8.1 (which is a ramped up windows 7 by the way!) needs to be like windows 7.. and they did what they could, they patched it up.. i now have windows 8.1 and it starts normal.. fast... and i use it like i would use windows 7..
what is the fundamental flaw? a company chose to use a brand of trackpad that sucks.. the flaw is choosing a company that makes a cheap cheap cheap laptop with cheap cheap cheap parts and components...
so where is the flaw?? you or the company.. well honestly .. kinda both..
i dont agree with a company using cheap parts and i don't agree with consumers buying from cheap companies..
i by the way have a lenovo laptop.. i am not that happy with it.. but now that i did "correct" most of these "fundamental flaws" you speak of.. it is just usable for me..
i didn't do enough research before i bought from lenovo.. and i jumped in.. cause guess what? i saw a cheap deal.. $1000 bucks for my laptop.. and even better, if i had spent that money on any other laptop i would have gotten so much better..
i am also coming from having a $2500 Apple MacBook Pro... and guess what.. they don't skimp on their hardware.. of course now they are starting to use cheaper components though.. so we will see where that goes.. but with apple you just walk into a store and they replace your computer..

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Iv bought a touchpad app for my iPhone 5 to use on my Mac mini,''
Considering the app for the iPhone is for iOS, you may have problems using it on the Mac (Mac OS X)
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Hi buddy,
> Can't seem to do it via the Control Panel.
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After one of the recent firefox updates the MAC touchpad cannot pinch and squeeze (zoom) anymore; hardware has been checked, any ideas?

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* browser.gesture.pinch.latched -> false
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