Windows tray utility · Precision Touchpad
The feature Windows forgot to ship
Slide up or down on either edge of your touchpad.
Left—Brightness.
Right—Volume.
You do this dozens of
times a day.
Brightness down. Volume up. Brightness back up.
Meeting too loud. Music too quiet. Video too dark. Music still too quiet.
None of it is hard. It's just another annoyance in a reality filled with annoyances.
Your touchpad is bloody huge.
Modern touchpads are as big as the margin between "quick question" and a 40-minute meeting it becomes.
Yet we mostly use the center area.
Don't the edges deserve some love?
With EdgeSlide you control brightness on the left edge and volume on the right.
It knows when you mean it
Not while scrolling.
Not while pinching.
Not while typing.
EdgeSlide only fires if your finger starts at the edge—not if it passes through one. It stands down when you're typing and when you use multiple fingers. Scroll, click, pinch, swipe—none of it is affected. No accidental brightness changes. No phantom volume spikes.
How it works
Install it.
Forget it's there.
Uhh, questions
Fine. Let's get it over with.
I certainly hope so. EdgeSlide needs a Windows Precision Touchpad—standard on most laptops made after 2016. To check: Settings → Bluetooth & devices → Touchpad. If you see gesture options there, you should be good.
No. It only fires when your finger starts from the edge. Scrolling, clicking, pinching, swiping—untouched. You won't notice it's there until you need it. And if you start movement from the center, even if you get to the edge it won't activate EdgeSlide.
Brightness works on laptop displays via standard Windows APIs. External monitor brightness via DDC/CI is on the roadmap, dependent on my coffee intake.
Yes. Download it, use it forever. If it saves you time and you feel like it, there's a pay-what-you-want option.
Just uninstall the damn thing from Add/Remove Programs. Delete %APPDATA%\EdgeSlide to clear settings. Then listen to a lovely song, remember we need more love in the world, and have a lovely day.
Ohh my, no. Never ever trust random apps on the internet. But the code is on GitHub, and it's open source. Read it, compile it yourself if you're not sure. That's the right call.