Hover settings

Hi,

If you want to disable the touchpad,

https://support.hp.com/ph-en/document/ish_6735941-6736026-16

or

Access Device Manager > Mouse > select one of the HIDs to disable it, and see which one is the touchpad, testing one at a time.

While this is not a Microsoft website, it is the official site of [ProBook 460 16" G11/ HP].

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On Windows 11, touchpad “hover” behavior (moving the pointer without clicking) cannot be disabled directly in Windows settings, but some related behaviors can be tuned or disabled depending on what “hover” means in this scenario:

1. If the goal is to disable the touchpad entirely (for example, when using a mouse):
   • OEMs and drivers control enable/disable via the Precision Touchpad registry and hotkey mechanism.
   • A helper application or driver can toggle the Precision Touchpad state using the built-in hotkey CTRL + WIN + F24 when HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad\Status\Enabled is non‑zero. This is typically wired to a hardware button or Fn key on the device.
   • On many laptops (including HP), the actual toggle is exposed as a dedicated touchpad key or Fn+function key combination. That key combination sends the CTRL + WIN + F24 sequence to Windows to turn the touchpad on or off.
2. If the goal is to adjust or disable specific gestures that might feel like “hover” actions (for example, two‑finger scroll, tap‑and‑drag, or two‑finger tap):
   • Precision Touchpad behavior is controlled per user under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad
   • Examples of tunable options include:
     • PanEnabled (two‑finger scroll)
     • TapAndDrag (tap twice and drag to multi‑select)
     • TwoFingerTapEnabled (two‑finger tap)
     • RightClickZoneEnabled (bottom‑corner press for right‑click)
   • These values are normally changed through the Windows Touchpad settings UI; OEM tools or helper apps can also read them and react to changes. The documentation specifies these values should be read, not overwritten, by helper apps.
3. If the device uses a legacy touchpad implementation:
   • A helper app can opt in to Windows Precision Touchpad settings via: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad\LegacyControlled\<HWID>
   • Once opted in, it must listen for changes under: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad and ...\Status\Enabled and apply them to the legacy touchpad (including enable/disable and scroll direction).

On an HP ProBook 460 G11 specifically, the practical path to “disabling hover” is usually either:

• Use the HP‑provided touchpad/Fn key to toggle the touchpad off (which uses the Windows enable/disable mechanism described above), or
• Use the Windows Touchpad settings (and any HP touchpad utility) to turn off gestures like tap‑and‑drag or two‑finger actions that may be causing unintended pointer movement.

If those options are not exposed in Settings or HP’s tools, there is no supported Windows‑level setting in the provided documentation that disables basic pointer movement from touchpad hover alone.

References:

• Enable, Disable Toggle Button (touchpad-enable-or-disable-toggle-button)
• Precision touchpad tuning (touchpad-tuning-guidelines)
• Legacy Touchpad PC Settings Opt-In (touchpad-legacy-touchpad-pc-settings-opt-in)