And plugged in a mouse. Touchpads for me are only good enough in a pinch.
First of all, I'm running an ASUS Q550L Windows 8.1. I believe this system uses "SmartGesture" for the toucpad driver, which I uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of times over the past couple of days trying to get this worked out. If there are other specs that I should share, let me know.
The problem is that the multi finger gestures, in particular two-finger scrolling has been suddenly glitching and lagging. Scrolling with arrow keys or the click scroll on the side of pages works, but when I'm trying to use the two-finger scroll gesture on any page or program, the movement either lags several seconds and does an incomplete motion or it does not have any motion at all. It also sometimes clicks after the lag at random.
I've un and re-installed the SmartGesture driver a couple of times and that has not helped the issue. I also turned off many of the gestures which I do not use (such as any 3-finger scrolls or anything involving the app screen)
Any ideas? Thanks very much =)

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