What is SynTPEnh.exe task? Other always-busy tasks too..

[Ground Loop]

I know it pays to be vigilent of running tasks on battery-powered laptops, so I'm curious what the SynTPEnh.exe might be. It regularly consumes about 2% of my CPU, which seems like a lot of math at 1.8GHz.

I couldn't find any services of that name. I'm guessing it's something to do with the Synaptics Trackpad, but what needs so much computing all the time? Can I disable it easily?

Also, I've noticed that "certtool.exe" frequently visits the directory:
c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\ibm\security\...
Every 20 seconds. It doesn't do any frequent writes, so at least this gets cached eventually.

c:\progra~1\ThinkPad\Utilit~1\US\PWMPSDF.INI is frequently locked, read, and unlocked at irregular intervals of a minute or less. It sometimes writes a file named after my username, which causes the drive to spin up. I don't know what task is responsible since it's hiding behind rundll32.exe. Any ideas how to find it?

In my experience, I get much better laptop performance when I can find all the bloated tasks that scribble to disk, and stop those services. A restful machine is a long-running machine.

[bhtooefr]

SynTPEnh.exe - the buggy piece of crap (well, at least Dell's version is) that gives you the nice features on your touchpad.

Without it, the ONLY feature that is added is tap-to-click - and then, you lose TTC sensitivity control.

SynTPEnh adds the side scrolling thing that makes touchpads almost usable, and makes it a LOT more functional.

If you don't use the touchpad, disable it. Otherwise, you'll have to keep it.