How to confirm the brand of trackpad (manufacturer)

Many laptops have multiple trackpad drives in the trackpad drive, normally, we double-click the setup in the following diagram (the file that is pressed out below) to automatically select the driver to install, but when the system is unable to automatically identify the installation will fail or after the installation of the trackpad can not be used normally. In this case, we can confirm with the hardware ID which manufacturer's touch board is used by the notebook.

1. Enter Device Manager

How Windows 7 Systems Enter Device Manager: Right-click on the computer icon---properties;

Windows 8 system access to Device Manager method: Win+x Select Device Manager;

2. Select Device Manager---Mouse and other pointing device;

3. Right-click to select PS/2 Compatible Mouse---properties (PS/2 compatible mouse is not installed before driver name)

4. Select details---hardware ID;

5. Finally through the hardware ID can confirm the contact board manufacturers.

Hardware ID of the élan touchpad

Hardware ID of the Synaptics touchpad

Hardware ID of the ALPS touchpad

SYN begins with the Synaptics trackpad, which starts with the ETD trackpad, and AUI at the beginning of the Alps touchpad.