{"id":1428,"date":"2016-09-23T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2020-12-13T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T05:44:10","slug":"windows-10-synaptics-touchpad-settings-lost-after-logout-or-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/09\/23\/windows-10-synaptics-touchpad-settings-lost-after-logout-or-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: Synaptics touchpad settings lost after logout or reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" align=\"left\" \/>After upgrading a system to Windows 10, some users are facing an issue with Synaptics touchpad. The settings are lost after logout or reboot the machine.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The issues is discussed within <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-other_settings\/windows-10-synaptics-touchpad-settings-lost-on\/968ef7c5-0d90-4af1-b143-3f813cb1b37e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Microsoft Answers thread<\/a>. The explanation is that Cortana brought up 3 or 4 finger tap, so the Synaptics touchpad settings are changed. After altering thouse settings, this properties are getting lost during logoff or reboot. The solution is mentioned within the MS Answers forum or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorms.com\/46323\/fix-synaptics-touchpad-issue-windows-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. Launch registry editor <em>regedit.exe via <\/em><em>Run as administrator <\/em>and navigate to the registry key: <em>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Synaptics\\SynTP\\Install.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Registrierungseintr\u00e4ge\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ynjAxOf.jpg\" alt=\"Registrierungseintr\u00e4ge\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Double click the DWORD value <em>DeleteUserSettingsOnUpgrade <\/em>and set the value to 0.<\/p>\n<p>After rebooting the system, the touchpad settings should remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After upgrading a system to Windows 10, some users are facing an issue with Synaptics touchpad. The settings are lost after logout or reboot the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,413],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-windows-10","tag-ynaptic-touchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}