How To Fix “Asus Smart Gesture Not Working”?

How to fix “ASUS smart gesture not working”?

My friend told me last week that his laptop’s touch pad had stop working. This was quite strange as it’s been just six months of his laptop. I went to his house in order to help him out. The laptop was of ASUS and he told me few days’ back he upgraded his windows and from that day on, smart gesture has stopped working. I did the basic checking process and found that actually the smart gesture feature was disabled. There by I enabled and it got started.

He thanked me but then I figured out as this could be the problem faced my many people. So how about to study bit more and provide you all with the remedies of this problem. I will be starting from A and try to help you. Let’s start!

Contents:

    What is smart gesture?

    Features

    Remedies

    Conclusion

What is smart gesture?

It is a program which is developed by ASUS. Version 4.0.5 is highly used by the users. ASUS smart gesture is a smart touch pad which basically identifies finger and palm contact of the user. Different gestures lead to different operations performed by the system. One of the factor that puts it in a head start is its Multi-finger Gesture.

Features

Some of the features that ASUS smart gesture possess are:

1.     Like any other standard notebook touch pads, smart gesture also have two conventional clickable buttons.

2.     Default features being click or select.

3.     It has a multi-finger gesture feature.

4.     Other features include maximize, minimize, scroll up, scroll down etc.

5.     Horizontal as well as vertical scrolling can be done by dragging two fingertips across the smart pad.

6.     This feature is quite beneficial when you are working on spreadsheets, presentation or even in the word processors.

7.     It also provide most simplest and convenient way to scroll up or down the window.

Now as we have seen what ASUS smart gesture is, how it works and what are the features. It’s time to see certain methods in order to fix it, if the smart gesture is not working. Generally when you update your windows, this problem occurs due to the auto detection done by your system which disables this feature. . This is not very huge problem however it is quite common. We will be seeing how to basically solve this detection problem by some of the mentioned methods and will resume to our handy smart gesture again.

Remedies

Here are list of the methods which we will be doing in order to fix this detection problem. Try any one of these or you can just go through it one by one as you never know which method solves your problem and you can restart your handy smart gesture all over again. These are:

1.     If ASUS smart gesture is disabled or locked

2.     Fixing the smart gesture

3.     Resetting to the default

4.     Downloading the modules

5.     Rolling back drivers

6.     Reinstalling the gesture

1.    If ASUS smart gesture is disabled or locked:

This ought to be the primary step done by you before moving on to some serious methods in order to fix the gesture. Like I have mentioned earlier what happens is that after an update of windows operating system automatically disables this feature. There by priority should be to try to enable it.

Step 1: Press window key and S at the same time

Step 2: Dialogue box will open and type Settings over there which will look it this: as shown below

Step 3: In the setting option, click on the devices option

Step 4: Open the tab mouse and then click on the additional mouse options

Step 5: Further click on the ELAN input device and enable it from there

Restart the computer and check if the smart gesture is working or not.

2.    Fixing the smart gesture:

Step 1: Press window key and R at the same time

Step 2: You will be seeing all the programs installed by you on your computer. Navigate until you find ASUS smart gesture option.

Step 3: Right click on it and then select the option Repair over there

Step 4: It might take some time to process it. After it is done restart your computer and check if the smart gesture is working or not.

3.    Resetting to the default:

Step 1: Press window key and R at the same time

Step 2: Dialogue box will open and type Control over there and press enter key

Step 3: In control panel, tap on the large icons and click on the ASUS smart gesture

Step 4: Over there click on the option set all to default

Step 5: After this restart your computer and check if the smart gesture is working or not.

4.    Downloading the modules:

ASUS Smart Gesture relies upon a few different modules also all together for right activity and that no mistakes happen. These modules are either as of now introduced on your PC or are incorporated into the update bundle from Windows. In any case, we will introduce these modules physically individually and check whether they have any effect to your current circumstance.

The modules which you might need to download are:

    Intel Serial IO 30.100.1643.1

    ATK Package 1.0.0051 (which is of 64-bit)

    Smart Gesture 4.0.17 (which is of 64-bit)

5.    Rolling back drivers:

Step 1: Press window key and R at the same time

Step 2: Dialogue box will open and type dvmgmt.msc over there and press enter key

Step 3: Search for ASUS touch pad, right click on it and then select the properties option

Step 4: Navigate the driver tab and click on the roll back driver

Step 5: Now the window will roll back towards its previous version and then restart your computer to figure out if the gesture is working or not.

6.    Reinstalling the gesture:

This will be the last option if none of the above mentioned methods didn’t work. You have to download the touch module all over again from the website.

Step 1: Press the window key and R at the same time

Step 2: Dialogue box will open and type appwiz.cpl over there and press enter key

Step 3: You will be seeing all the programs installed by you on your computer. Navigate until you find ASUS smart gesture option.

Step 4: Click on the Uninstall option

Step 5: Further navigate to the official ASUS site and there download the software for your computer.

Step 6: Run the installation file and check if it gets installed successfully

Conclusion

I hope the solution provided above fixes the problem of your ASUS smart gesture. However it might take bit of your time but at the end you will be able to access your smart gesture all over again which will provide you with ease and comfort in your work and operating your computer.