Devices Adjust Touchpad Sensitivity in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to adjust touchpad sensitivity for your account in Windows 11.

If your Windows 11 device (ex: laptop) has a built-in precision touchpadyou may need to adjust the touchpad sensitivity for your needs.

AAP is a feature of Precision Touchpads that suppresses certain actions like mouse moves and taps for a short time after keyboarding events. The specific timeouts depend on the type of action and the region of the touchpad receiving inputas well as the user setting called Touchpad sensitivity found in Touchpad settings. More sensitive means less time is spent suppressing input after keyboarding events. Maximum sensitivity means AAP timeouts are zero and AAP is not in effect.

Touchpad sensitivity is how much pressure must be applied on the touchpad before it responds.

If your pointer is moving or clicking erratically or to easilydecreasing sensitivity may help.

If you have to press too hard to operate the touchpad or the touchpad does not always respond to your tapsincreasing the sensitivity may help.

Reference:







1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Bluetooth & devices on the left sideand click/tap on Touchpad on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on Taps to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)

4 Select the Most sensitiveHigh sensitivityMedium sensitivity (default)or Low sensitivity level you want in the Touchpad sensitivity drop menu. (see screenshot below)


5 You can now close Settings if you like.





1 Do step 2 (Most sensitive)step 3 (High sensitivity)step 3 (Medium sensitivity)or step 5 (Low sensitivity) below for what you want.





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This is the default setting.

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6 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

7 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

8 When promptedclick/tap on RunYes (UAC)Yesand OK to approve the merge.

9 Restart the computer to apply.

10 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink