My experience with these drivers are that the responsiveness varies between different computer models. Many of them already had multi touch functionality enable by default. (I have tested several computers with default drivers since I got my computer. In addition to this, when it actually did scroll, the mouse pointer would change into an ugly picture to indicate this, which I find totally useless and quite distracting. Most of the time nothing happened, which you probably can tell is extremely annoying. Sometimes I had to swipe my fingers ten times before the drivers detected this and initiated the scroll feature. The touchpad did not seem to properly detect when I used more than one finger. It turned out that the responsiveness was really bad. Nice, I thought to myself, until I tried to use it. So I got the real drivers and a number of new options appeared in the driver settings, including the desired option to use two finger scrolling (enabled by default). You can get the full drivers by simply downloading them directly from Synaptics support page. There is an easy solution to this though. Instead you get a crippled version where functionality has been removed. But as I understand it, patent issues causes many computer manufacturers to not ship the “full” drivers.

This corporation delivers touchpads to several major computer manufacturers. The dominant producer of touchpads for portable computers and other devices is called Synaptics.

Having investiged this it turns out that the drivers shipped with the computer simply did not contain support for two finger scrolling even though the hardware itself supported it! However, there were a few other options, indicating that the touchpad was actually capable of detecting more than one finger at a time. Imagine my surprise when I couldn’t find any settings for two finger scrolling. The first thing I did was to dig through the driver settings. But I refused to accept this, and after some diligent searching and testing I have finally found a solution that works for me. Unfortunately my hopes faded rather quickly when I discovered that the trackpad seemed to lack support for multi touch gestures. If you have used an Apple laptop and scrolled webpages by dragging two fingers on the touchpad instead of fiddling with a scrollbar, you know what I mean. With a brand new Win7 laptop in front of me I expected the touchpad to deliver a modern multi touch gesture experience. Even if your laptop is already capable of scrolling using two fingers, this guide can still be worth reading, since according to my experience the “feeling” can likely be significantly improved! Introduction This is a small guide on to how to get two finger scrolling and other multi touch gestures on your Windows laptop.

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