Now, while I'm in this broken driver state, the touchpad works, but I'm unable to do what I most care about, disable tap to select, and allow for disabling the touchpad visa fn+f9. I'm an administrator, and I've tried to run device manager in administration mode as well, with the same results. I've booted with driver signing check disabled, and manually selected the windows 8.1 圆4 drivers, and at the end of the process, I get 'access denied'. But, now the issue, is that it is showing up as 'microsoft ps/2 mouse' in device manager. During a previous re-install, I managed to get this to work by disabling driver signing enforcement, but somehow, the gestures would constantly reset on reboot, never really found a solution to this (assuming I get this far, I'd like to hear suggestions, I'm thinking I need to freeze some registry entries, but using a scanner, I found 14k entries were changed, related to ELAN). It has an ELAN touchpad, I know for a fact it is not synaptic, nor works with those drivers, and to work correctly, requires ASUS smart gesture, as far as I know.

I recently re-installed windows 8.1 圆4 on my Asus UX305FA laptop.

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