Windows – Disable Charm bar’s Touchpad gesture shortcut

Skip Metro Suite (turns off charms/hot corners, etc) + Start8 (Search/settings all in a normal Start Menu) should get your computer back in business.

Part of the beauty of Windows is the ability to customize. don't let others convince you otherwise.

The touchpad and the click pad are two different things. The Synaptics touchpad is your normal, everyday touchpad you are used to seeing on a lot of pc laptops like HP, Dell, etc. A couple of years ago, I purchased a HP pavillion m6 (Don't recall the entire name), and just like the second poster mentioned, it did have a shortcut conveniently located in the upper left hand corner of the mouse pad. The touchpad also usually come with the standard two buttons at the bottom of the pad to be used for left and right clicking.

The click pad is another laptop mouse pad except this time there are no left and right buttons at all because the entire pad clicks when you press on the bottom left or bottom right side of the pad. I actually prefer this to the touchpad...but I was also disappointed to see the shortcut in the top left corner disappear.

I'm not thoroughly positive if I understood the OP with respect to where exactly you looked. You mentioned that you went into control panel and then went to the synaptics icon and clicked on it. That will bring you into a window labeled "Properites for Synaptics ClickPad". You will be treated to little animations and also very brief descriptions as to what each gesture can do and how you are to execute the gesture if you would like it to work. In this window you can disable the gestures you're unhappy with. Another thing anyone having a similar issue could do is to click on "Smart Sense". The more you slide the slider to the right, the more the clickpad will somehow ignore mistaken touches when the palms of your hands are touching while typing. It doesn't work perfectly, but you might just be surprised at just how effective it can actually be.

Finally, in Windows 10, if you go into control panel and then click on "Mouse", the window will open to display 6 mouse/navigation/clickpad related tabs. By default this window opens all the way to the right tab which just happens to be a tab called, "ClickPad Settings". If you look in the middle of the window, you will notice a little checkbox labeled, "Disable internal pointing device when external USB pointing device is attached. Hope this helps anyone wondering about this particular topic.