SOFT Solution to disable/override Touchpad windows gestures

[Bill Christiansen]

That’s an interesting work-around. I found it helps to increase the mouse cursor speed in the mouse settings so you can move the mouse cursor a bigger distance with smaller movements on the pad so it’s easier to avoid the edges. I still get caught out when moving the cursor down the page if I get to close to the top of the pad it reduces the window from full screen to a smaller window.

[Mickey Y]

Bill Christiansen wrote:

I still get caught out when moving the cursor down the page if I get to close to the top of the pad it r

You can try using this method to override the swipe down from edge gesture that resize/restore the window.

[alessandro]

wonderful…

I wonder if there is something for android too…

[Mickey Y]

I have attached a compiled EXE to remove the annoying Swipe down resize windows gesture, also set the two finger scroll to inverted direction. See the attachment of the 1st post, feel free to try it out and report back if it works for you.

[Nicolas Giraud]

Hi, thanks that’s a really useful workaround. Could you please document the script commands you used and how you compiled the executable? For instance I’d rather not invert the 2 fingers scrolling direction.

[Mickey Y]

Have a look at their website up there, they have a very detail documentation and tutorial. The download section has another bundle to compile your own executable, very details.

My script was listening to WinKey + Down (restore current window size) hotkey and override it with empty return command.

The invert scrolling part was listening to mouse scroll down and replace it with mouse scroll up, and doing the same with listening mouse scroll up and replace with scroll down.

[Bill Christiansen]

I tried your executable, and it works well. Thanks!

[alessandro]

Do we have just to unzip and put into startup folder?

Thanks

[Mickey Y]

alessandro wrote:

Do we have just to unzip and put into startup folder? Thanks

Yes, you can. Or you can run it manually every time you start windows.

[Bill Christiansen]

alessandro wrote:

wonderful… I wonder if there is something for android too…

I haven’t had the same issues in android as the touchpad is not as sensitive and you don’t get the same false triggers.

For those who need the path to start folder for Windows: C:\Users\”your user”\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

@Mickey, can you compile another same as the first but with pinch & zoom also disabled?

[Mickey Y]

Bill Christiansen wrote:

can you compile another same as the first but with pinch & zoom also disabled?

There seems to be a bug/or unknown problem when using the AutoHotKey script that, intercepting both “pinch & zoom” and “restore window size (swipe down from edge)” at the same time will end up ignoring the “pinch & zoom command”. I can compile just ignoring the “pinch & zoom”, but you will lose “restore window size” override.

It could be me couldn’t figure a way to make both of them working together. Please read the tutorial if you are interested, you might discover a better way to solve it, and please share if you do.

[Bill Christiansen]

Mickey Y wrote:

Bill Christiansen wrote:

can you compile another same as the first but with pinch & zoom also disabled?

There seems to be a bug/or unknown problem when using the AutoHotKey script that, intercepting both “pinch & zoom” and “restore window size (swipe down from edge)” at the same time will end up ignoring the “pinch & zoom command”. I can compile just ignoring the “pinch & zoom”, but you will lose “restore window size” override. It could be me couldn’t figure a way to make both of them working together. Please read the tutorial if you are interested, you might discover a better way to solve it, and please share if you do.

Ok, will do. Thanks for trying it’s already much better to use.

[Rusty Spoons]

@Mickey Y – Would you be so kind as to post your code? Is it like so?

WheelUp::
Send {WheelDown}
Return

WheelDown::
Send {WheelUp}
Return

#Down::
return

I’d love to be able to invert the scrolling on a couple of other devices I have!

[Mickey Y]

Rusty Spoons wrote:

Would you be so kind as to post your code? Is it like so?

Yes, thats exactly what my script is, give it a go.

[Jhon Lee]

Could you provide microsoft style version for scroll direction?Thanks.

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