How to Turn On or Off Tap Touchpad with Single Finger to Single-Click in Windows 11

This tutorial shows you how to turn on or off tap touchpad with a single finger to single-click in Windows 11.

If your Windows 11 device (like a laptop) has a built-in precision touchpad, you can change its taps settings the way you want.

Reference:

Precision touchpad tuning (touchpad-tuning-guidelines)

This topic presents information about touchpad tuning capabilities in Windows 10 and beyond.

Option One

Turn On or Off Tap Touchpad with Single Finger to Single-Click in Settings

1. Open Settings by pressing Win+I.
2. Click on Bluetooth & devices on the left side. Then click on Touchpad on the right side. (see screenshot below)

 Open Touchpad settings

3. Click on Taps to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)
4. Check (on – default) or uncheck (off) Tap with a single finger to single-click for what you want. (see screenshot below)
5. You can now close Settings if you like.

Option Two

Turn On or Off Tap Touchpad with Single Finger to Single-Click using Registry

Turn On “Tap with a single finger to single-click”

This is the default setting.

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad" /v TapsEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 4294967295 /f

Turn Off “Tap with a single finger to single-click” %%FLAG_ADMIN%%

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad" /v TapsEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Summary

You now know how to turn your touchpad single-finger tapping on or off in Windows 11. You can use the Settings app for an easy way to change this. Or you can use the Registry if you prefer. Either way works fine.