Sometimes, no matter how much you switch up the settings, your touchpad (or other pointing device) just doesn’t cover enough ground during a single stroke. you should not need to lift up your finger, move it back to the other side of the pad and swipe again to form it across your desktop. And, If you’ve got a laptop with a pointing stick like a Lenovo ThinkPad, you really don’t need to have to push the stick really hard just to move around.
Fortunately, with an easy registry tweak, Windows 10 and previous versions provide how to push your pointer speed and sensitivity above the control panel allows.
Before you start
Before you edit your registry, confirm your pointer speed is turned up to the maximum in your touchpad / pointing stick software or in the mouse control panel. to get there:
1. Navigate to the Windows control panel. you can get there by opening the start menu and checking out “control panel.”
2. Open the mouse menu. If you do not see the Mouse icon, set the “View by” menu to Large icons.
3. Open your touchpad driver (if there is a link to it). it’s going to have its own tab (ex: Dell Touchpad)
4. Set the pointer speed to max. you will have to set it separately for the touchpad and pointing stick.
5. Navigate to the pointer options tab in the Mouse Properties window.
6. Move the pointer speed slider all the way to the right and uncheck “Enhance pointer precision.”
7. Click OK.
Edit Your Registry for maximum Pointer Speed
1. Open the Registry Editor. you’ll get there by hitting Windows + R, entering regedit in the box and hitting Enter.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse by opening the navigation tree within the left window pane.
3. Set the MouseSpeed to 2 by double-clicking on MouseSpeed and then entering 2 in the value field.
4. Set MouseThreshold1 to 0.
5. Set MouseThreshold2 to 0.
6. Close the registry editor and reboot your PC.
