If you've downloaded Windows 8 release-to-manufacturing (RTM) to your laptop you may notice that you don't have any support for multi-touch gestures. Technology weblog Cnet News discovered that until Windows releases official multi-touch drivers for Windows 8 installing the Windows 7 drivers from Synaptics will restore functionality.


Oddly enough the Windows 8 Release Preview included Elan alpha touch-pad drivers so that early adopters could use multitouch but that was not carried over to the RTM release. Thankfully the Synaptics drivers for Windows 7 work fine until Microsoft gets around to an official release.

How to enable touch-pad gestures on Windows 8 laptops | Cnet News via Nirmal TV