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Process name: Synaptics TouchPad Enhancements
Product: Synaptics Pointing Device Driver or Synaptics Pointing Device or IBM ThinkPad UltraNav Driver or ThinkPad UltraNav Driver or Synaptics TouchPad or Progressive Touch
Support: Help link [1][2] Update link [1][2] Uninstall tool
Company: Synaptics (synaptics.com)
File: SynTPEnh.exe
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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Users Opinions
Average user rating of SynTPEnh.exe: based on 128 votes. Read also the 107 reviews.
2651 users ask for this file. 74 users rated it as not dangerous. 15 users rated it as not so dangerous. 22 users rated it as neutral. 6 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 11 users rated it as dangerous. 13 users didn't rate it ("don't know").
| All comments about SynTPEnh.exe: | |
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| 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 canīt 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 | |
| Went crazy one time... Restarted my PC Zvilich | |
| hogging cpu. asus laptop. closed process in task manager, no ill effects other than zoom not working. Amy | |
| It eats up a good 6% of cpu sometimes and causes lower end machines to lag a little. It lets you scroll and zoom with the touchpad, as well as some other features Jamin | |
| It says on my webroot cleaning program that its a memory leakage problem then also my computer is running very hard Cheri | |
| With my Lenovo E335 I face the folling problemm: CPU usage is ok at 1% when touching the red Trackpoint only, this soars to 17% when touching the touchpad. CPU usage is soaring to 49% when touchpad function is diabled but touched accidentially. I use the newest driver available (currently its 16.6.4.13) Murdock the German | |
| not dangerous... but sometimes freezes!!!!!!!!! mooooooo :( | |
| it took 1,5GB RAM!! i had to kill it Ario | |
| Just a program | |
| Safe | |
| It's a touch pad driver process Sai charan | |
| Synaptics touchpad service | |
| ?? Comodo keeps blocking it from accessing memory Rodent | |
| Appears to be wasting memory space. Mouse users uninstall. Hannah | |
| Can't agree with others, only uses .2MB of RAM and no CPU. See also: Link Leo | |
| Not a bug or a virus, just a giant resource hog. Sucks up 45% or better of my CPU whenever I start laptop. If you have this problem and don't require anything fancy of your laptop's built-in mouse (like pinch-to-zoom or special page-down scrolling) you can get away with deleting the program without noticeable loss of functionality. (after deleting you will have to restart laptop by holding down power button, as deletion will temporarily freeze your cursor. You didn't break it! Touchpad will work fine again after reboot.) | |
| Norton blocks it from accessing process data "Unauthorized access" for "uistub.exe" - one of Norton's processes Michael | |
| It keeps taking over the game overlay on Discord TheUltimateYT | |
| Totally safe, used for a track pad service. Adnan | |
| touchpad driver | |
| If you're experiencing some tearing/lag/stuttering while scrolling, especially in Windows file explorer, then there's a chance that this particular service is the cause ! type "msconfig" in start, go to services, disable windows' ones, and look for this one : SynTPEnhService. and disable it, then reboot. ghassane | |
| This process allows touchpad improvements, such as pinch zooming, or two finger scrolling. I personally never had it consume large amounts resources. FrozenIce | |
| It helps with button speed/ config so it's ok i suppose See also: Link Mezington | |
| This is a pad diagnostics and enhancement sys. Do not disable. :) See also: Link Alto | |
| Malware | |
| I didn't know what this is and it actually doesn't seem to bother me. BUT, when Discord doesn't detect the game I play and I add it, syntpenh is one of the detected programs. Jesus | |
| it's safe, related to synaptics touchpad. Boff | |
| synptics touchpad enhancements - beware, some viruses use this exe name or infect the file Noxyntious | |
| it's not dangerous but uses a lot of system resources for no apparent reason. uninstalled it too once i read other users doing it (i use a usb mouse too). also it's pegged as an "above normal" priority program but without really much utility. K | |
| i think its ok since it has never slowed down mty pc vasil | |
| It uses quite a lot of RAM (I may be using 24% RAM from my 8GB and once turning this off, it goes down to 17%) that is half a gigabyte of RAM usage. So it may become quite annoying if you have little RAM. Nick | |
| It's a touchpad driver. Viraxor | |
| It's a system file, come on Boyne | |
| it just helps ur trackpad anime watcher 2000 | |
| from what i can tell, syntpenh just means "synaptic touchpad enhancementa" had an error a little while ago though so theres that PeachyMun | |
| Synaptics touchpad tray icon See also: Link davisunit | |
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