Where to find the latest digitally signed Synaptics touchpad driver?

Solution 1:

It is still secure. Extract the zip and open syntp.cat in the WinWDF\x64 folder. That is the digitally signed "Security Catalog" file. That file contains the signature for all files (both containing a sigiture in itself (like DLL's) and non-singable files (like the .wmv files))

The signed installer that is included in that folder uses that syntp.cat file to verify that the files it is installing to your computer are the files it expects to see and no extra or missing files exist.

Solution 2:

Its' not a problem with security or whether the file is signed or not. Windows 8 doesn't seem to think that the drivers are signed and without disabling DSE, it will not install the latest drivers provided on Synaptics website. Even though, it clearly states support for Windows 8.

However the other link provided by @root, installed on my Windows 8 Pro successfully. I was running the OEM synaptics driver that came with my dell and that was giving me problems with scrolling in Windows etc.. The generic synaptics driver ver 15 works great. Thanks for the link

Also, I couldn't find the syntp.cat file in the folder.

Solution 3:

http://www.synaptics.com/resources/drivers

The link supplied to the latest drivers- It is a digitally signed, self-executing file. The only difference between the two is the newer driver's executable is inside a zip file. This is fairly common these days given the growing size of assembly packages.