Driver for Synaptics Dell Touchpad - downloading and installing it

Dell Touchpad is a Mouse hardware device. The developer of this driver was Synaptics. HID/VEN_MSFT&DEV_0001&Col01 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Synaptics Dell Touchpad - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Synaptics Dell Touchpad driver. The archive contains version 18.1.2.3 dated 2014-03-10 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver was not digitally signed.

This driver received an average rating of 3 stars out of 22870 votes.

2. Installing the Synaptics Dell Touchpad driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Synaptics Dell Touchpad driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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