Spent no less than 20 minutes this morning uninstalling what I can only describe as ransomware pretending to be a trackpad driver.
I'm glad I don't use apple hardware on a regular basis, and even more glad I don't have any windows machines in my personal life.
If you find yourself needing windows drivers for an old Macbook pro trackpad, I highly recommend avoiding trackpad++ which is a scam disguised as a device driver that attempts to disable your system when you uninstall it.
There's a decent open source driver called mac-precision-touchpad. If you search "uninstall trackpad++" it will be the first result. That's telling right?
Anyway, the trick is to uninstall trackpad++ the usual way. At this point, your pointing device will be less functional than it was before you installed trackpad++, which is to say that it disables the trackpad entirely.
Open device manager, navigating with the tab key and arrow keys to find the trackpad++ entry under Mice. Open it, choose delete device. Be sure to check the box for uninstalling the driver, otherwise the driver will stay installed and non-functional, and hijack any attempts to install a valid driver.
Then scan for hardware changes.
Then find the actual TouchPad under HID. Then select the open source drivers from wherever you've extracted them.
At that point, your computer should be functional again unless you're having driver signing issues (which you can also fix! But which I'm not going to go in to here because you shouldn't run commands as an administrator in a command prompt on windows based on advice from random people on social media, especially when those people hate windows.)
So, in short, fuck trackpad++
Tell all your friends.
(It's not my computer, in case that wasn't clear.)