SynTPEnh.exe implements a set of additional configuration options and enhancements for Synaptics touchpads, such as defining button functions and changing sensitivity. Synaptics touchpads are found on millions of laptop computers. Also SynTPLpr.exe, which provides more basic functionality for Synaptics touchpads. Both of these processes must typically be left running to ensure proper operation of the input device. 

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1265 users ask for this file. 35 users rated it as not dangerous. 11 users rated it as not so dangerous. 12 users rated it as neutral. 6 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 6 users rated it as dangerous. 9 users didn't rate it ("don't know").

All comments about SynTPEnh.exe: touchpad driver for compaq notebooks   Synaptics TouchPad Enhancements   valu Deals with a laptops built in mouse   Synaptics TouchPad Enhancements file. Laptop touch pad file.   Synaptic Touchpad Treiber   Synaptics TouchPad Enhancements Software Used for Secondary and Auxiliary Function of Synaptics TouchPads   Vash_T.S. It is constantly using 98% or more of the processor until it is killed.   Mno Compaq Notebook Touchpad Util. Some versions XP-incompatible  See also: Link   Alfred Abplanalp It grabs large amounts of CPU resources, up to 90%, for no apparent reason.   Bruce Wetherall Does use much of processing power. If able use a usb mouse and kill the process   DaWuf Agree with Mno. It uses 99% of CPU on booting up. Have to kill it to get going   deletes c drive after 4 hours   Gerk Deukkler It does seem to run away, best to uninstall it as the touch pad will still work without it.   Mr. T Shouldn't be using as much resources as Bruce Wetherall's computer is - may be a problem there. ThinkPad touchpad driver. It along iwth SynTPLpr.exe should only take about 7,500K. Killing it may disable touchpad (but not trackpoint) but don't delete it!   spider pops up and freezes everything, very annoying   alex Agree with comments about using up to 98% of resources. Stopped it running at startup using start/run/msconfig. Laptop is now flying with no apparent ill effects!   Phil Bowerman I have a compac presario laptop with a synaptics touchpad. Most of the time I use it with external keyboard, mouse and monitor. Many times I've found synTPEnh.exe to be totally hogging cpu time, blocking all other applications. I use Task Manager to end the process with no negative effects. But every time I reboot the application is loaded and eventually dominated operation.   Tom Parker its useing large amounts of cpu resourses for no apparent reason   hippe Supposed to be the process that regulates touch pads on laptops, but recently mine has been taking up 99% cpu usage. Annoying.   vik Synaptic Touchpad Driver (DELL and other)   This is the driver software to allow your touchpad to operate. It is completely safe and essential if you wish to use the touchpad.   IqbalHamid This file is not "dangerous" in any way shape or form. It drains processing power better used elsewhere if you can get ahold of a USB mouse as opposed to using the touchpad. Gerk Deukkler, it will NOT delete your C drive under any circumstances unless you have some whacked out worm of the same name,   Adam Not dangerous, came with Packard Bell laptop - no issues ever   Synaptics Touchpad Driver that screws Dells up. Uninstall it and get the latest drivers from the Dell website   Phil Consumes 99% of CPU. Need it to disable the touchpad (prefer the stick mouse on my Dell D610 and commonly accidentially hit touchpad moving my mouse, registering mouse clicks, trashing whatever I'm working on)   Garry Garrett controls my touchpad and doesn't hog cpu cycles   Enables TouchPad features (middle button on ThinkPads won't work without it); should use very little CPU if working properly; unnecessary if you use USB mouse or do not use advanced features   EK controls trackpoint scroll function, and creates dead pixels on IBM T60 laptop   FoxBat enables mainly the scrolling area on my touchpad's right side. uses some 0.3..1% of CPU resources. principally dispensible, but I'm used to the scroll function :-(   r in IE 7.0 causes all user-written words to be written backwards. In FF 2.0 constantly abuses the mouse so that nothing can be clicked or scrolled down. Annoying   Igor It brings the CPU at 99%   CyBerto Synaptic touchpad driver   Chris just saying gerk is lieing   swift After you installed the driver, system uses 99% of cpu power. After about 10 minutes system returns to normal   Yeaktom spikes CPU to 98-99% every 10 seconds or so...drops to 0% in between...most definitely does not "delete ur c drive"...   Dennis on boot up on a desktop machine it takes up 99% of the cpu until killed - I want to permanently put it out of my misery   mrkortek Uses approximately 75% of CPU power on a Dell laptop with Win 2000. Solution: Uninstall the Synaptics application.   ENTER data Not dangerous just a complete cpu hog will drag performance down get usb mouse and kill this   tollstore synaptics touch pad for dell notebook   Just chills out. No ill effects, no processor use, only 4.5k memory, but utterly useless   sk Without it running your touchpad can't do any scrolling functions. I find that eXceed X.11 server sometimes causes the mouse to hang, and the only way to get the mouse unfrozen is to kill this process.   syntpenh.exe is a process installed alongside the Synaptics touchpad for laptop computer touchpads. Provides additional configurations and support, and is essential on some machines for the functioning of this input device. This program is a non-essential system process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.   Vincent Nunez Not a critical application on my laptop. Only uses about 600 kilobytes of memory.   Dan It's just...a driver for the touchpad. I disabled it then the touchpad didnt work, you can disable if you want but keep in mind you must use another mouse. Never had any issues with it...   It's simply a touchpad driver. Nothing to get your panties in a knot about. It uses about 5,000 k of memory on my comp, and with 1 gig of ram it's not too bad. Don't worry 'bout it.   Amu Got the message on Sony Vaio laptop,too.   If killed on IBM-T series the middle button scroll with touch stick does not work anymore. It takes some I/O resources and about 0.5% processor   mb dell touchpad   steve This is the driver for the Synaptic Touchpad Enhancements. If you have this on a desktop, then it is probably a virus with the same name. Safe, but a popular name that viruses duplicate   H It is constantly using 98% or more of the processor until it is killed   OGEE Have been trying to perform Windows 2000 updates but the updater would hang. Checked the task manager and SynTPEnh.exe was using up ~90% of the CPU. Killed it and updates are finally installing. I suspect that it was infected as this was a fairly unprotected system. Probably harmless in most cases but caused problems for me.   Eric consumes 5-20% cpu. under heavy load mouse freezes. T61 (Intel Dual-Core T9300, 3GB RAM, Win XP 32bit) upgrading UltraNav driver helped on thinkpad.   BW uses cpu and a large amount of memory... killing this process vastly increase machine performance (mind you a dell latitude running w2k) touch pad external and stick mice all still work   quiznos Sometimes this process starts taking 100% of a CPU on a ThinkPad T series. At this point my track pad doesn't work. The touch stick or whatever it is called still works. If I kill the process using task manager, the track pad starts working again. I have ThinkPad UltraNav Driver 7.5.17.20 installed.   Jay I disabled it but my touchpad still works fine in Fujitsu S7110.   Macy Runs with touchpad. Thought this has been said it seemt to cause no damage. Nor does it steal any large amounts of ram   Pudding Came with Asus Eee PC. Using 1-4% CPU mostly for me. When killed, can no longer mouse-wheel scroll by dragging two fingers across the trackpad, but apart from that (and possibly other features I don't use) the trackpad still controls the mouse OK.   Drew Noakes It is used for scrolling and secondary features on a Synaptics touchpad for laptops. It should not run at 90% or more if running correctly. Only problem with it is it crashes every once and a while and in order to use scroll features it has to be reactivated.   JHoff This process takes up to 100% of the CPU. I recommend not installing it in the first place!!! A beast!   Scandicrafts use barely any cpu or memry. most of the time it's on 1 or 2% usage, and only 1mb of memory   Anthony If it running, my computer can´t connect to internet. When I shut it down, my computer connect in half a second!   Doomista It is a driver for the touchpad for laptops.   Ravi Synaptic touch pad enhancements. Runs in the notification area and displays touchpad gestures.  See also: Link   Wayne 1372 kb ram   jow The driver is broken and can become hung in a loop where it will consume all the CPU. It can be killed and this always works for me.   James seems to be a touchpad enhancement element on my asus G73JW laptop   Sgartlan Uses unreasonable CPU and 143MB of RAM!! KILLED it on my Asus K53E-BBR1 laptop. Touchpad still works, lost scroll feature on side of touchpad. I didnt use it anyways. Very happy once I end-task on it.   MrData-Pasadena-CA it's true about useing CPU just delete it and you won't have to think when it's gonna lose control!   krle same here with MrData-Pasadena-CA. killed it, and fan rampage and cpu heating are gone. it could be infected with some malware I think   feo-tr uses up to 25% cpu, on a 4 thread dualcore cpu : slows down everything, need to be killed. , even after updating it's still glitched. probably badly optimized fo my system (alienware laptop)   tgum If you value your touchpad, don't mess with anything labled as Synaptic. The newest versions allow for multi-touch pinch-to-zoom features, and it only uses 1 mb of Random Access Memory (yes, I felt like typing out the whole name :P)   Leviathan I found a PF-file named SYNTPENH.EXE-183D6069.pf In map C:\Windows\Prefetch It takes 18 kb. I dont Know if it is a virus or something. Im using Windows Xp on a Eee Pc laptop.   Saber If you know more about SynTPEnh.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. Security Rating:  --- don't know ---  1 (not dangerous)  2  3 (neutral)  4  5 (dangerous) What do you know about this file: Link for more details: Your Name:

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