If you already have, we recommend heading to Control Panel > Uninstall a Program and uninstalling the Synaptics or ELAN drivers that appear here. We don’t recommend performing this tweak at the moment. We had some issues clicking and then our touchpads would stop responding shortly after boot.

Update: The Fall Creators Update broke this tweak on both laptops we tried it on. It looks like that’s now possible-unofficially, at least. At CES 2017, an HP representative told us that HP was looking at making it possible for users to choose between treating the touchpad as a Precision Touchpad and using the manufacturer-provided drivers. It not only worked on both laptops, it made the touchpads feel a lot better-in our opinion. We tested this on a 13-inch HP Spectre x360 (2015 model) and on a 14-inch Dell Inspiron 14z (2012 model). Now, there’s a way to install Precision Touchpad drivers even on laptops that don’t ship with them.

Unfortunately, PC manufacturers can opt out of using Precision Touchpads. Laptops with “ Precision Touchpads” are optimized by Microsoft, support standard gestures, and can be configured from the Settings app. Microsoft has been trying to improve the touchpad experience on Windows 10 laptops.

Surface pro 3 touchpad not working