Laptop Scroll Touchpad
Do you have a laptop with a plain old boring touchpad like mine (Dell 600M)?
Do you wish you had a fancy one with scroll bars and a middle mouse button?
Well, you might and just don’t know it. The following might vary depending on your laptop manufacture and installed touchpad drivers.
You can add these features to any touchpad by setting some options in Windows. In the Mouse Settings in the Control Panel there is a tab called Gestures. Here you will find the advanced options for your touchpad.
Here you can see I have the Scroll Functions added to my touchpad. I also have the Middle Click mapped to the top left corner of the touch pad.
You can also set the corner clicking to pop up the run dialog, shortcut menu, and other options. You might also have noticed that there is the option to add Back/Forward Buttons. I was really excited about these, but they did not work for me. Let me know if they do for you.
Overall this was a great find. All I was trying to do was change a mouse cursor and found a lot more to play with. So far the extra functions being added to the touchpad have not been in the way of normal usage. For any of these functions to work, you must be up against the very edge of the touchpad so it is hard to accidentally press them. Let me know your laptop has similar options.
4 Responses so far
March 4th, 2008
5:04 pm
Thank You!!!!
I have missed this feature on my new laptop
May 1st, 2008
1:28 pm
hi,
when i first bought my laptop, i could use many functions like this scroll function on my touchpad and moving my cursor on the taskbar and able to preview my page in a small thumbnail. however, my laptop got a virus and i had to reformat my laptop.. i notice my fuctions had disappear. i search online and found your site and tried, howerever, i still cant get back to my old functions. what had happened?? can u contact me at gastonbelle@hotmail.com please.. thks..
August 11th, 2008
6:32 pm
Hey this really seems useful but my mouse properties window is totally different
I don’t know if the fact that I have vista has anything to do with it but not being able to use the scroll thing on my mouse pad is driving me nuts! If there is anything else I can do please HELP!
September 9th, 2008
2:00 pm
Like what the last person said, My mouse properties windows isnt the same the article. arggg
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