This article explains how to lock and unlock the touchpad for an HP laptop. The first thing we suggest trying is a simple double-tap in the top-left corner of the touchpad. This should work if ...

The new Windows 8 release to manufacturing doesn't seem to support touch-pad gestures out of the box, so you may need to download the drivers yourself.

Yes, you can reverse the mouse or touchpad scrolling direction, and here's how on Windows 10.