How To Enable

Macbook

-Style Two Finger S

crolling on Window

s Laptops

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by:

Hengjulie

Song

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/