Windows 10 touchpad gestures no longer working as expected (XPS 13 9333)

Nevermind, I got it to work after uninstalling Dell Touchpad, and then installing the same version from the Dell website. However, the "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" setting doesn't work with the touchpad, but it does work with a mouse (generic drivers). Any idea on why is that?

Hi Polmes

I'm experiencing the exact same problem. It is frustrating, since I don't want to rely too much on the old gestures as the new gestures are eventually going to supplant them. I saw the failed Synaptics update as well, but I played around with some preferences and it disappeared, but the touchpad issues still remain.

Not only that, but some of the old gestures don't exist anymore - for example, four-finger-swipe-down to bring up the Desktop does not work anymore.

same here
windows 10 64bits dell inspiron 14r 5437

Never mind. The solution is to uninstall Dell Touchpad (from the "add or remove programs" menu accessed from the CONTROL PANEL, not the Modern UI version), and then to install the latest Synaptics Dell Touchpad drivers from the website. 

NOTE: have a mouse or touchscreen handy, as your touchpad will be disabled until the new drivers are installed.

UPDATE: the fix is only temporary, the touchpad's behaviour has reverted to the flawed behaviour in the original post.

Hey Polmes

Would you mind walking through the exact process? I've tried uninstalling the Dell Touchpad from the Drivers menu, and then installing the touchpad drivers downloaded from Dell's website, and it didn't work. Should I reboot after uninstalling the drivers and before installing the new ones, for example?

do you mean the windows 10 will automatic install driver version 19 ?

My Touchpad stopped working after the upgrade to windows 10. At first it worked but without the Multi-Finger gestured, then it stopped working completely the next day... 

How to get it fixed?

XPS 13 L321X

And also my webcam is not working anymore... Does anyone know how to get these fixed?

I am having the same issue with my Dell inspiron. 3 finger swipe up brings up cortana and down brings up settings. Anyone find out how to fix?

Same problem...

Did anyone find solution?

I experience the same problem with the v19 touchpad drivers for my xps 15. I found a workaround consisting of killing the SynTPEnh.exe process, and then restarting it (it's located at C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\ ). This process seems responsible for processing the multi touch gestures. I suspect that, as restarting this program fixes the problem, it is a bug in the driver rather than a hardware problem or bug in Windows. Dell/Synaptics should update its driver.

To make this workaround as streamlined as possible, I made a little batch file on my desktop that does the killing and restarting, with this command:

(taskkill /IM SynTPEnh.exe /F && start /D "C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\" SynTPEnh.exe) || pause

The Console window only appears very briefly if killing and restarting the process worked fine, otherwise an error is shown and command pauses to let you read the error message.

(Of course, this workaround is at you own risk. killing a process regularly isn't exactly gentle, but it seems to do no harm on my system)

Killing the process doesn't seem to change the wonky gesture settings for me.  XPS14

Hopefully Dell updates this driver.  This is quite frustrating.

I uninstalled the driver, then installed an older 32bit version I found by searching dell drivers on the dell site for my service tag and it solved the problem until I closed my laptop (sleep).

I have the same problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver. That fixed it temporarily - then reverted to launching settings on swipe down and cortana on Swipe Up. Very very annoying

Also tried upgrading the BIOS ... still have the same problem.