Enable touchpad support - Windows Server 2025

[wins]

Hello to everyone

This might seem like a dumb question, but here it is.

I've installed windows server 2025 on a laptop that came with windows 10.
Everything works (audio, wifi, bluetooth, printer), except the touchpad.

From other forums I've found that support for touchpads is generally disabled in windows server.
Some tutorial also explain how to extract the hidi2c.inf file from the iso image and installing it on the os (but I failed to apply it succesfully).

Is it possible, with ntlite, to create a windows server iso that has touchpad support enabled by default?

 

[garlin]

Touchpads on laptops are dependent on the I2C controller and your OEM's touchpad drivers.

1. Load a W11 Pro image, and explore the mounted folder.

2. Copy these "\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository" folders to another location:

amdi2c.inf_amd64_d7ae71f8eb52c084
hidi2c.inf_amd64_e94f3ca241858aef
iai2c.inf_amd64_a77c815b2999404d

3. Unload W11. Reload Server 2025.
4. From the Drivers screen, Add / Directory containing drivers / Add your copied folders.

5. Find a copy of the OEM's touchpad drivers. Extract them to a local folder, and add those drivers too.

 

[wins]

Thank you Garlin, I'll test it on my next machine.

The OEM's touchpad drivers are not strictly required for having a working touchpad.
For example, the touchpad worked perfectly during the installation process of Windows Server 2025.
The drivers that are on the windows server 2025 iso (hidi2c.inf) are apparently not copied over during the installation process (see

[Solved] Windows Server - HID I2C

Nevermind - got it to work after really reading and understanding what people had been doing. So big thanks to this forum, my touchpad is working now.

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