Dell Studio 1555 Touchpad Driver Windows 7
Introduction This guide is for older Dell Systems (. Newer driver releases, in many cases the last iteration of Windows 10 Touchpad drivers released often work with older Touchpads although they are not designed for the specific Touchpad in question. In most cases the installer will reject the hardware, therefore one has to force install the Driver via the Device Manager. This is an unofficial guide and covers a large range of hardware so unfortunately finding the best driver it is quite “experimental”. Fortunately however this unofficial guide is well-reached and many Dell customers have tested and reported the best driver for their system. Please comment on your findings so I can update the list at the bottom which is populated by other people’s testing on their models.
Contents Tested Driver Version or Suggested Driver Version for Dell Systems:. Driver Installation Instructions. List of Dell Touchpad Driver Versions (by Vendor):. Alps and Synaptics are the most common vendors.
Versioni dei Sistema Operativo: Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (x64, x86) Category: Dell notebook. Subcategoria: Dell Studio 1555 notebook. Descrizione del driver. Qui puoi scaricare driver per Dell Studio 1555 laptop, or scaricare software per installazione ed aggiornamento driver automatico da DriverPack Solution.
Extract the Driver Download the suggested driver (if no driver is suggested then look at your Drivers and Downloads page and determine if the driver is Synaptics or Alps and try the latest version). Extraction of the Driver depends on the Driver Package. For the Newer Driver Packages you should use the.exe to Extract the Driver to a specified folder. For the Older Driver Packages it is often better to use 7zip to extract the driver. Variant A (Newer Driver Package) Double click the driver: Accept the User Account Control: Select Extract: Select Downloads and make a new folder, call it Touchpad: Select ok and then close: Go to the Downloads folder and select the extracted Touchpad folder: Look for the 64 Bit folder (assuming you’re using 64 Bit Windows 10): Select the address of the Download location and right click it then left click copy: Variant B (Older Driver Package) Note if you do not see a separate x64 or x86 and only see a.exe after extracting. You may have to further extract using a utility like (I advise 7zip version 9.20 because it works better in my testing): Then you can look in the extracted folder: To find the x64 folder with the drivers: You can then copy this address like before: 2.
Force Install the Driver via the Device Manager For best results remove any USB mouse attached to the system. Right click the Start Button and Select Device Manager: Expand Mice and other Pointing Devices Select “PS/2 Compatible mouse” or “Dell Touchpad” or any other similar devices and then right click and select properties: Select the Driver tab You will be told the driver version and date. In this case the generic 2006 Microsoft driver is used. You can attempt to install the driver normally and then recheck the version in the Device Manager.
In a large number of cases the driver will not be installed and Windows 10 will still continue to use its generic driver. To amend this select update driver Select Browse my computer for driver software: Select let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer: Select Have Disk: Paste in the 64 Bit extracted location then select open: Select ok: Left click the Dell Touchpad and select next: Accept yes at the warning: The driver will install: Select close: Select yes to restart: Right click the Start Button and Select Device Manager: Expand Mice and other Pointing Devices and look for Dell Touchpad. Is present right click it and select Properties: Select Driver. You will see the driver version of the Touchpad has now been updated: If there is an! Then the driver has not taken and must be uninstalled. If the Touchpad is not-responsive or erratic you may need to plug in a USB mouse to do this. Right click Dell Touchpad and select Uninstall: Ensure to check “Delete the Driver Software for this Device” then select Uninstall: Retry with an older version of the driver.
Test the Touchpad! Right click the Start Button and select Settings: Select Devices: Select Touchpad: Amend the settings to your preferences and play around with your Touchpad to see how it works and how stable it is I would appreciate it if you left feedback in the comments on what Touchpad driver works best for you in your system. Video Instructions This video is made by RedDragonTechUK. Watch it on YouTube and leave him a like and a comment. Philip, I have a Dell Inspiron N5010. The update driver Synaptics 19.0.15.2 – Windows 10 64 bit did not solve my scrolling problem.
I attempted to use the latest Synaptics Touchpad driver 19.0.27.9 Windows7/10 64 bit, but I could not get it to install. I cannot see where to find the 64 bit information in the folder files. I am having the same problem finding the 64 bit information in the Synaptics driver files 19.0.27.3 and 19.0.9.6. I need this to add to the address of the download location.
Can you provide help in locating this information? I have clean installed Windows 10 Creator’s Update (1703) on a Studio 1558 Memory: 8GB; CPU: i7-720QM, Chipset: HM55; Wireless: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 AGN; Display: AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5470. I used the “touchpadsynapticsw84x10a02setup-nvcd2zpe” for the Touchpad. I tried the Synaptics – 19.0.27.9, 19.0.27.3, 19.0.19.1 and the Dell 16.6.13.0. I ended up using the Dell 16.2.10.3 as the Touchpad seems to work the best. The first two Synaptics drivers caused a complete loss of the Touchpad. Good thing I remembered the keyboard shortcuts for shutting down (Alt+F4).
Otherwise, I would have had to do a hard reboot. The Generic Synaptics and the Dell 16.6.13.0 drivers worked, but, there were issues when trying to copy and paste.
Unfortunately, I cannot remember or find how I came up with the Dell 16.2.10.3 driver file. I’ll keep looking. It came off the Dell ftp site. I saved all the links but there are over 50 of them. I’ll post the complete install order and driver name/version used, under the “Driver Sets”.
Thank you Philip, for your VALUABLE documentation!!!! I would have never figured this out on my own.
Thank you for the post! I hava a Dell Latitude 6430u, which originally came with Windows 7 Pro. When updating to Windows 10 the touchpad started to bad functioning: Driver 10.1207.101.103 was installed and right click was not functioning, left click acted as right click, not click on pad neither scrolling. I’ve tried the first 17 Alps drivers listed above with the following results: 8.1200.101.218 8.1200.101.217 8.1200.101.214 8.1200.101.209 Almost good – Left click and pad clicking work ok, but left click and scrolling are still not functioning. 10.1207.101.1.101.1.101.102 8.1206.101.118 8.1206.101.115 8.1206.101.112 8.1206.101.110 8.1206.101.109 8.1206.101.104 8.1200.101.218 W10 8.1200.101.134 8.1200.101.129 Bad functioning: Equal as driver 10.1207.101.103 after the update I kept 8.1200.101.218 installed but I hope someone else could find a workaround for this issue. Anyway, thank you again for your help. You gave me a bit of hope for a while.
Once again, the good Doctor has provided me with the cure after Dell’s customary failure to do so. It seemed as if I had no choice but to permit the download of software I already have after it became clear it was the only way either of us was going to get what we wanted. The resulting scan, I was told, “might take a few moments.” Not a hard + fast term in actual meaning but it suggests you might be facing a wait of a duration not widely considered to be long. The British rationale would commonly interpret it as, ‘I’ll put the kettle on!’. No one would expect that 2+ hours later those ‘few moments’ would still be counting down, but that’s what happened, I’d still be waiting now if I hadn’t bailed out! There was no, ‘Sorry, scan has failed’, well, I’m sorry that I’ve been consistently let down by Dell Support + now, for the 3rd time(?) one of Doc Yip’s spot on, idiot-proof (a personally approved rating) guides has solved my problem, just in the nick of tim, too.
If I had to put up with the cursor moving when my palm brushes the touchpad when I type, for much longer, I would have done something regrettable, to me most likely, to someone, anyway, I’m sure. The service these guides provide are of great value to many people + the public spirit exhibited by the effort put into providing them is a true measure of the man, he deserves a medal! These guides are just what the Doctor ordered, you might say?!? Sincerely thankful, Ricky Dickson. Dell 11z 1110 – tried with both (32bit) Anniv and Creat: It has an Elan SmartPad (which is a pretty appalling thing but we are where we are). Basically none of the Dell offerings worked properly (or at all in some cases) – the Dell “utilities” are also pretty bad – but there is what is more or less an Elan generic driver (i.e. No “Asus” utilities) for Win 7 32bit (and also Win 7 64bit – but I have not tested that) available on the Asus website (they used Elan on a number of their laptops).
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Worked fine by manual install (update) of the driver and I can configure the Elan Smartpad to do what I wanted (which is what I have been doing under XP). Specifically I needed to configure 2 finger tap to be the pop-up menu (=right click) because this pad has no buttons and is unusable without this. This driver has the familiar Elan tab in settings from which all things can be adjusted – never found a way of doing this with any of the Dell utilities. Links are: If you are having issues with Dell drivers/utilities this might be a simple fix. Seems that Dell decided not to support XPS L702X, so I was left swaying in the wind, literally. I want to say everything did not seem to function, generally a word far too often used in every life situation, suggesting all, excluding nothing, is the problem.
You can pick the category that everything can apply to. I never lost hope that I would find some resolve. In a google search I was fortunate to find your web page. Although I have to say I was skeptical to start off with. This driver I have been struggling with is from Synaptics main web page. Synaptics Touchpad – V 17.0.19.0 XP 32 Bit, Vista 32 Bit, Vista 64 Bit, Windows 7 32 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit, although it’s not listed on your site, it was my starting point. Followed your instructions, now have very smooth functionality.
(without rotation, pinching or scrolling ability) Yet, so pleased that I have control without need of bullying my touchpad. Finally a step forward. Thanks to you, Dr Philip Yip, I have the resources you have painstakingly put together, which I hope will allow me to take leaps and bounds.
Btw, may I ask you how long it took you to get to this point on your site? Thank you Philip!
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I`m try installed some Alps drivers on my Inspiron 1525 with Windows 10 64-bit (ver. Drivers versions 10.1207.101.xxx (I tried 102, 113, 110) and 8.1206.101.118 – not work scrolling (this drivers for multi touch touchpads, but my laptop not have multi touch touchpad).
Versions 8.1200.101.217, 8.1200.101.218 – working, but no cursor images when scrolling, and scrolling disabled in settings on default. Version 7.1007.115.102 – working, but sometime freezing pop-up menu when right button on USB mouse pressed. Now I installed version 7.1209.101.217, this working good for my laptop. P.S.: I find compatible driver simply – copy short line in device properties without “.” symbol, sample with my device: ACPI VENPNP&DEV0F13 ACPI PNP0F13.PNP0F13 copy PNP0F13 and find this line in Apfiltr.inf file in Vi64 catalog of unpacked driver files.
If this line found, then this driver compatible with device. Sorry for my bad english 🙂. 8.1200.101.217 and 8.1200.101.218 works well, but when scrolling not appears the cursor images are added during the driver installation (from directory Vi64 data Cur), just the usual cursor from Windows. This is not a problem, but sometimes it’s convenient to see the scrolling mode (for example, normal scrolling or circular). The reason for using Windows 10 version 1607 is simple – I use it because this version works without any problems.
And for my laptop there has not been an automatic update to version 1703 in the Windows Update Center yet. And I do not want to reinstall fine work OS without a reason.
I did not find anything better in version 1703 than the version 1607, which is installed on my PC. Excellent work, Dr. Multi-touch is not supported in hardware / firmware on the E6400 / E6500 or earlier laptops from Dell. Alps calls multi-touch their “glidepoint” technology, which they developed in order to be certified for Windows 8.1 by Microsoft. Therefore, none of the version 8 or version 10 Alps drivers work correctly on any of the Exx00 laptops, nor any of the D, C, X, l, or CS series laptops. The only Latitude laptops with multi-touch came after 2009 — Exxyy with yy greater than 00.
The driver recommended by Dell for the E6400 is the latest version 7 driver, v.7.x2.101.230, A13 (Nov. However, if tap-to-click while typing is an issue, I recommend the 2011 driver, v.7.1207.101.108, A15 with TouchCheck enabled and the touchcheck slider all the way to the left. This leaves cursor movements enabled while typing, but turns tap-to-click OFF after typing, until you do a regular button click. V.7.1207.101.108, A15 also has “inertial movement” of a sort, which would be better labeled “continued edge movement.” I’ve increased the IM areas on top/bottom/left/right in the registry from 40 to 70, and changed EnableOnlyWhenDrag from 1 to 0.
Also recommend you leave Touch Sensitivity right in the middle. Too high, and IM won’t work, too low, and you can get random, unintended taps when the laptop warms up under heavy load. I believe I have the best possible use of the touchpad on my ooold, old Inspiron 9400 with Windows 7 32 bit, and I believe others can do the same with 64 bit, including up to Windows 10. I have the two finger scroll, three finger press to open any program of my choice, and customized edge motion and scrolling with pressure control. I’m not sure the three finger flick works, but I might be missing something. I tried a dozen different drivers on your list above, but could only achieve this with two unlisted drivers.
The earlier driver, ver. 9.0.1.3 from Dell’s site, gave me the edge motion. It has an excellent GUI to customize that feature.
Then I installed the generic driver from Synaptics site — ver. 17.0.19.0 — using the “forced” method described above. Doing it manually, withOUT uninstalling the earlier driver, leaves edge motion intact, even though that part of the GUI disappears. The first driver is here: I recommend you spend a few days getting used to, and customizing the edge motion before you go here: to get the latest generic driver for your operating system. Don’t uninstall the first driver and use the manual method through device driver and “Have Disk” described above. Then in Control panel Mouse Device Settings Settings, check all the boxes and click on “Three finger press” to choose the program(s) you’d like to open with 3 fingers. Only the Synaptics driver will remain in Control Panel Programs and Features.
On my Win7 32 bit Home Premium machine, a message popped up saying the driver is unsigned. I simply told it to install anyway, and everything was fine. Other versions of Windows may have to find a tutorial on YouTube explaining how to make Windows swallow unsigned drivers. Dell Studio 1555, Win10 up to date as of 26/10/17 Pkway posted that that the Synaptics driver 16.6.13.0 works for this machine. I have found that it’s more complicated than this. BEFORE you test any drivers you must change a setting in Windows.
Go to Settings-Mouse & Touchpad-Touchpad. Select ‘No delay (always on)’ in the drop down menu. Once you have installed a driver it will NEVER work correctly until you change a setting in the Dell touchpad utility.
You will need to plug in a USB mouse to do this if clicks and taps aren’t working yet. Find the setting for ‘Palm rejection’ and disable it by un-checking the box.
I have tested 14.0.2 through to 16.6.13.0 and none perform well unless these two steps are taken. I’ve run out of time to systematically test all Synaptics drivers with both these steps.
I’m currently using 16.6.13.0. Basic functionality is fine. Multi-touch does NOT work. Edge scrolling and zoom work which is enough for the moment. Thanks for such an awesome website Doctor 🙂.
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