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How To Enable
Macbook
-Style Two Finger S
crolling on Window
s Laptops
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Hengjulie
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How to Tell What Type of Track pad You HaveFiguring out what type of hardware you’re
using is extremely simple—just type mouse
into the Start Menu search box, or head into
the Mouse section of Control Panel. Once
you’re there, head to the Hardware tab, and
you’ll be able to see what type of pointing
device you’re using.
You can probably also see an icon in your system
tray for the pointing device you’re using—
thankfully that’s easy enough to remove.
Enable Two-Finger Scrolling with Synaptic DriversYour laptop probably has the default drivers from Microsoft or the drivers for your laptop vendor—for instance, if you’ve got a Dell laptop like the one I’m typing on, it has Dell-branded versions of the Synaptics drivers, which may not support two-finger scrolling. It’s worth taking a trip into the Mouse settings to see if there’s an option, but otherwise you’ll need a different solution.
• The actual Synaptic drivers from their site support two-finger scrolling gestures natively, so what you can do is simply install those instead of the drivers from your laptop’s manufacturer. Head to the driver downloads page, install them, and reboot your PC.
• Now when you head into the Mouse Properties window in Control Panel, you’ll see a Device Settings tab, where you can click the Settings button to get into the advanced settings page.
Head to Scrolling –> Two-Finger Scrolling on the left-hand side,
where you can enable vertical or horizontal scrolling with two
fingers—you’ll probably want to enable the Edge Motion setting as
well, which keeps scrolling when your fingers hit the edge of your
touchpad.
You’ll probably want to also
check out the Pointing –> Sensitivity
settings and do some tweaking
there—if you’ve got the Palm
Check feature or the Touch
Sensitivity cranked up too
far, the scrolling won’t work well.
It’ll require some testing, but you
should have two-finger scrolling.
You’ll probably also notice that
the drivers enable Pinch Zooming,
and they even let you do three-
finger gestures. Sadly.
they work better in theory than in
practice, but you’re encourage to
experiment to see if you like them
Enable Two-Finger Scrolling with a Freeware Add-on• If you’d rather not mess with your drivers, there’s
another add-on that works, though it only works for Synaptic touchpads. After doing a lot of testing, we’ve actually found that this is a preferable solution that works really well.
• You’ll need to download TwoFingerScroll, extract the zip file somewhere safe that won’t be deleted by accident, and then just launch the utility. Once you’ve done that, you’ll see a new icon in your tray, where you can quickly enable or disable the scrolling, and more importantly, head into the Settings.
The Settings panel’s Scrolling tab has a
couple of options that you’ll want to
tweak—set Scroll type to Linear, and
Scroll mode to Smart. This will enable
significantly better scrolling than the
Compatible mode.
If you click the Help link you’ll see a popup dialog that explains how each one works—the important one is Smart mode, which actually does smooth scrolling mode most of the time, until you hold down Shift+Ctrl+Alt while scrolling, and then it switches into Compatible mode for that single application. This is a great way to get the most of both worlds—if the regular mode doesn’t work, like for older applications, you can use the hotkey sequence to enable compatible mode, which should work.
You’ll probably want to head to the
General tab and make sure that it’s
also set to start up with Windows.
We tested both of these
techniques on a Dell Studio 1555
laptop, with great luck—the
Two Finger Scroll utility worked a lot better than
the Synaptic driver method,
but your mileage may vary, or it might not work
for you at all.
Thanks for your attention!!!
Reference: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/35065/how-to-enable-macbook-style-two-finger-scrolling-on-windows-laptops/