XPS 17 9700, left bottom corner of touchpad not working

I am having exactly the same problem with my XPS 15 9500. 

Somehow, the driver seems to filter touchpad input on the left, upper and right edges if you place your finger directly over the edge. This is especially annoying because also clicks are not registered if you place your finger at the edge, which is really annoying because I am used to click in the lower left corner. 

It is driving me insane. Dell Support told me that the touchpad is completely functional according to the technical parameters and could not offer me any help until now. I just want a software option to disable this "feature".

If you go to the BIOS, you will notice that clicking in the lower left corner works perfectly. I would really appreciate a solution to this problem. 

Mine too. Clicking is very erratic within 1/2 inch of the left or bottom borders.  Very frustrating to use.

Dell is sending a replacement, and if it is the same, the whole shebang is going back.

For $3k you ought to get a decent keyboard and a touchpad that registers clicks whenever you can hear the pad audibly clicks. 

My HP X360 has user adjustable click zones, all handled in the driver. This would be a nice software upgrade for the XPS pads.

Better yet - give it up the clicking on the pad and install some buttons like a P53 - they work every time.

I am having exactly same issue .Its really frustrating that lower corner buttons randomly do not work. I thought, I was the only one as not many people are talking about it .

Did anyone managed to find solution

After moving the cursor with your right finger, left click before you take your right finger off the touchpad.

@SPrez :

Could you explain what happens when you do that ?

@SPrez 

perfect , now I got you - Thank you

I tested here and on my XPS 17 9700 I can reproduce exactly what you said.

There is one thing : when you keep the left finger in the bottom left corner and use the right finger to make a selection (e.g. you draw a rectangle on the screen to select files in explorer), then the selection gets lost sometimes, like if you removed the left finger from the touchpad, which you did not

The left click (lower left corner click) always works for me if after moving the cursor with my right finger, I leave my right finger on the touchpad before doing the left click (pushing the lower left corner with my left finger). If I remove my right finger then do the left click (lower left corner click), it does not always work.

I haven't use a touchpad for years but there are various options in mouse settings / touchpad that you can tweak to give you the behavior you want but I agree that the left click not working by itself consistently is frustrating.

It seems that that the touchpad is designed better to use single tap for left click and 2 finger tap for right click. I got my XPS17 as a desktop replacement so that when I travel I can take my "desktop" with me. I will probably end up using it with a mouse for the majority of the time. I am just not finding the touchpad to be very efficient to use.

I am also having this issue. Were you able to find a resolution?

I have been using my brandnew XPS 15 9500 for about 3 hours now and am having the exact same issue. Very frustrating. 

I received a new XPS 17 9700 as replacement from DELL.
It has exactly the same issue, which I described in this ticket.

Just got an XPS 15 9500 and am having this same issue. The trackpad works fine 75% of the time, and then randomly clicks don't register despite clearly hearing the physical click sound.

I got the exact same issue with my XPS17.

I definately thinkthe issue is software-related.

Since there is only one physical button in the bottom center of the touchpad, the software decides when and which button you pressed depending on your finger's location.

If your finger is positioned in the left bottom area and the button is pressed, then it's a left button press.

Same applies to the right button.

So my guess is that the software thinks it's a finger-"move" and ignores the button pressed-event?

Is there any statement from Dell side to this obvious series failure?

Besides that my touchpad makes an annoying noise when double-tapping it slightly.

@Dellorianer :

I can only speak about my situation:

I was informed that my "replacement laptop" will be checked for this issue.
If it was checked, the check did not find the issue or it was ignored.
Currently I have the "original" XPS 17 and the "replacement" XPS 17 with same issue.
As I was told the issue is being escalated now. No technical answer till now.
If it is a software bug, a fix would be very welcome.