edge motion on touchpad

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Chnasyd

Here's the deal. The touchpad on my laptop used to have edge
motion...meaning it would scroll up/down or left/right if my finger followed
the lines on the bottom or side of the touchpad. My family has been using
the computer while visiting, and now I don't have that capability anymore.
Does anyone know how to restore the scrolling capabilities on my touchpad?
Thanks!
 
Try Control Panel/Mouse look for the tab dealing with your touchpad -
ensure a setting for Virtual Scrolling (or something like that) is enabled.

Val

"Chnasyd" <Chnasyd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Here's the deal. The touchpad on my laptop used to have edge
> motion...meaning it would scroll up/down or left/right if my finger
> followed
> the lines on the bottom or side of the touchpad. My family has been using
> the computer while visiting, and now I don't have that capability anymore.
> Does anyone know how to restore the scrolling capabilities on my touchpad?
> Thanks!
 
I went to Control Panel-Printers and Other Hardware-Mouse and it said it
could not find the Synaptics Pointing Device Driver. Does that mean
anything? I pressed ok and then it went to the mouse characteristics, but
there wasn't anything about scrolling. :( Thanks for trying. Does anyone
else have an idea? Thanks!!

"Val" wrote:

> Try Control Panel/Mouse look for the tab dealing with your touchpad -
> ensure a setting for Virtual Scrolling (or something like that) is enabled.
>
> Val
>
> "Chnasyd" <Chnasyd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:82220B27-C1E1-4318-8607-66AC7FE3A6B9@microsoft.com...
> > Here's the deal. The touchpad on my laptop used to have edge
> > motion...meaning it would scroll up/down or left/right if my finger
> > followed
> > the lines on the bottom or side of the touchpad. My family has been using
> > the computer while visiting, and now I don't have that capability anymore.
> > Does anyone know how to restore the scrolling capabilities on my touchpad?
> > Thanks!
>
>
>
 
Is the touchpad shown in Device Manager? If so, try removing it, then
reboot. Does Windows find it and reinstall it?

Val

"Chnasyd" <Chnasyd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:166413E1-6AEA-44AB-81BD-2DE40EE5412B@microsoft.com...
>I went to Control Panel-Printers and Other Hardware-Mouse and it said it
> could not find the Synaptics Pointing Device Driver. Does that mean
> anything? I pressed ok and then it went to the mouse characteristics, but
> there wasn't anything about scrolling. :( Thanks for trying. Does
> anyone
> else have an idea? Thanks!!
>
> "Val" wrote:
>
>> Try Control Panel/Mouse look for the tab dealing with your touchpad -
>> ensure a setting for Virtual Scrolling (or something like that) is
>> enabled.
>>
>> Val
>>
>> "Chnasyd" <Chnasyd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:82220B27-C1E1-4318-8607-66AC7FE3A6B9@microsoft.com...
>> > Here's the deal. The touchpad on my laptop used to have edge
>> > motion...meaning it would scroll up/down or left/right if my finger
>> > followed
>> > the lines on the bottom or side of the touchpad. My family has been
>> > using
>> > the computer while visiting, and now I don't have that capability
>> > anymore.
>> > Does anyone know how to restore the scrolling capabilities on my
>> > touchpad?
>> > Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
 
Hello,

Dig out the Drivers CD that should have come with your laptop and install
the mouse drivers from there.

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"Chnasyd" <Chnasyd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:166413E1-6AEA-44AB-81BD-2DE40EE5412B@microsoft.com...
>I went to Control Panel-Printers and Other Hardware-Mouse and it said it
> could not find the Synaptics Pointing Device Driver. Does that mean
> anything? I pressed ok and then it went to the mouse characteristics, but
> there wasn't anything about scrolling. :( Thanks for trying. Does
> anyone
> else have an idea? Thanks!!
>
> "Val" wrote:
>
>> Try Control Panel/Mouse look for the tab dealing with your touchpad -
>> ensure a setting for Virtual Scrolling (or something like that) is
>> enabled.
>>
>> Val
>>
>> "Chnasyd" <Chnasyd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:82220B27-C1E1-4318-8607-66AC7FE3A6B9@microsoft.com...
>> > Here's the deal. The touchpad on my laptop used to have edge
>> > motion...meaning it would scroll up/down or left/right if my finger
>> > followed
>> > the lines on the bottom or side of the touchpad. My family has been
>> > using
>> > the computer while visiting, and now I don't have that capability
>> > anymore.
>> > Does anyone know how to restore the scrolling capabilities on my
>> > touchpad?
>> > Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
 
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