Touchpad in Windows 10

[peterleo]

Hello Everyone!

 

I have an issue that is really frustrating, I would really appreciate any help you can give!

First of all, I'm using a Dell XPS 15 (9530) equipped with a Synaptics touchpad, running Windows 10. All drivers/ software is up-to-date.

 

I have the following issue:

Whenever I double tap anywhere (not click, just lightly "tap" the touchpad), the computer interprets it as a "left click and hold" on a regular mouse - the type of action you perform to highlight text, or make a selection.

The issue is that the touchpad is not precise enough to make a difference between simply moving a finger over the pad and double tapping. This results in many "ghost clicks" and random selection of items. Even worse is dragging and dropping something unintentionally!

 

I've checked behavior without the Synaptics driver installed, and in Windows 10 is the same. So this is down to Windows 10 interpreting double tap as left click and hold.

 

Does anyone have any idea as to how I could disable only the "double tap" = "left click and hold"? 

I really like the "single tap to left click feature", so I wouldn't want to disable tapping on touchpad.

Maybe through registry modification or something? Just to force Windows to ignore a double tap on the touchpad.

 

Thank you in advance!