Turning off Gestures on touchpad??

On my S10e i can use gestures to make my touchpad do clever things like zoom a webpage - i've not worked these out properly and find them highly annoying!
Is there a way of disabling this feature so it just works as a normal old fashioned touch pad??

Hi,
so you want only standard funktions
the way is,
start ---> run as--> -- type msconfig ok ---> runs the configuration menue---> autostart --- find on the left Side SynTEnh (SynapticsTouchEnhancement)---untick to disable SynTPEnh ---
after a restart tick the message so that it doesnt nervs you again ...
thats all...
Greets KalvinKlein
Message Edited by KalvinKlein on 02-26-2009 10:50 PM
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