[Procedure] Tweak your Windows laptop touchpad

With the proliferation of laptop and netbook, you mouse (touchpad, trackpad) of the machine became one of the main input tool for many people. Touchpad on a Windows PC can customize many things very good and interesting software, but you do not have the time or ability to be able to tweak them. In this article, I'll share a few tricks and experience to deal with errors touchpad on laptop, desktop mouse will serve up the most convenient for us to use the laptop every time. Here is the setup guide for Windows, is illustrated by the Synaptic driver, Elantech, two driver manufacturers currently widely used.

For notebook users Windows

Upgrade driver for Touchpad

The driver of the touchpad always keep in the latest version is very important. In the updated version, the manufacturer will fix compatibility errors, error sensitivity, or sometimes they also added a few new features for our touchpad. Approximately every few months, or when you free, do not know how to surf the web, visit to the driver page for your laptop. Often the driver will provide site is part of the Support site. Remember to select the correct line of laptop and operating system you are taking, if not more annoying bug happens there. If the driver is unknown page where you can easily search by asking "I Google" with the syntax of your series name + "driver". For example, my EeePC netbook driver for the Asus 1000HE, I will write the EeePC 1000HE driver . You should visit its web right to let other web, because only the driver posted on the web new company is reliable and highest stability only. Again: please select the correct line of machine and operating system you are using lightly. If you are also free, always available opportunity to update drivers for other hardware too. Off Touchpad

The driver for the touchpad has a clever feature, which is automatically temporarily disable the touchpad while you type. But not always, this feature works perfectly. Therefore, many will choose to turn off completely by hand and touchpad. Some laptop hard buttons available to accomplish this, such as HP, Compaq. Others use some key combination such as Fn + F a certain expenses (eg Sony VAIO the Fn + F1, Fn + F3 Asus then, generally with the touchpad and a diagonal line). There are also some machines do not have any keys, then you use softwareTouchFreeze . It will help you quickly turn off the touchpad on your PC. A few new HP machine allows you to disable touchpad tapping twice on the upper left hand of Andrew. A software called AutoSensitivity will adjust the sensitivity of the left mouse is connected. You can take it to disable the touchpad whenever we use the mouse to jump out by placing the touchpad on the minimum. With her, the games, so pretty close to the keyboard or touchpad should not be confused, and AutoSensitivity have solved this problem. Want to run with the software when Windows starts, you select the box "Run at Startup".

Negative features in the configuration of the Synaptics

If you are using a laptop to support the Synaptics driver, we have many things to customize here. The laptop of Sony, HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Toshiba (and all the models launched a few years ago) often use the company's driver. To open the touchpad configuration, go to Start> Control Panel> Mouse. (Or editing a word mouse to find also). Switch to the Device Settings tab, if your laptop is using the Synaptics driver, you will see listed here, as well as driver version. Click the Settings button to open the configuration details. In this window, you can tweak the features that you have not even ever think that your computer has. I will list a number of useful features and is often used for your reference.Maybe your driver version newer or older machine that I used to write this interface can be slightly different, but the main features are still the same.

• Tapping> Tap & Drag : you can set up the only drag the table to perform drag and drop. Some of you will not feel like this feature because it makes us or be confused, especially when your hands a little bit wet, it runs in panic up.
  
  
  
• Tapping> Tap Zones : In this section, you can set up to run a certain feature by touching one of the four corners of the touchpad. For example, you can set Word to the touch command to run the upper left corner of the touchpad, or enable Firefox to touch the lower right corner. To play with this feature, you must first select the Tap Zones section, select the box Enable Tap Zones. Then you can choose to act in the Bottom Left Action section, Bottom Right Action, Action Top Left, Top Right Action. In addition, we also can set the size of the zones in tap Tap Zones item Size. You use your mouse to drag and resize to hit like that and not be confused while using the touchpad.
  
  
  
  
  
• Virtual Scrolling : This is a virtual scroll feature when we touch the edge of the touchpad. If you accidentally find yourself scrolling the mouse wheel is not, please visit this site to activate the horizontal scroll and vertical scroll for your laptop. You can also set the scrolling by pressing the Scrolling Region in the left panel. Use your mouse to move so that there is satisfactory size impact.
  
  
  
  
  For machines using Synaptics driver has multitouch support (usually the driver will release 7.2 or higher), you will have more items Two-Finger Scrolling, Pinch Zoom and Rotating. This is the operation using two fingers. Two-Finger Scrolling lets you scroll with two fingers, but is self-Pinch two fingers zoom in / out to zoom in, zoom out the image. Rotating the operation when you use a finger to touch the touchpad, fingers turning into an arc shape on the table by dragging the image will rotate. If you feel that this feature is not necessary (or suddenly stopped using it anymore), visit this menu to activate / cancel them.
  
  
  
• Sensitivity : + PalmCheck: This feature automatically detects when you touch the palm of your hand or other parts of the hand, thereby limiting the movement of the cursor when you accidentally touch the gill area. You can drag to the Maximum to maximize the limited press by mistake. There are also many no longer recognize the touchpad gestures to touch your normal, when measured drag the cursor toward Minimum. + Touch Sensitivity: Touch Sensitivity adjustment bar to adjust the overall sensitivity of the touchpad. If you or your hands sweat like us, or are working in high humidity environments, drag a bit toward Heavy Touch. Conversely, if you feel it too sensitive or you are in a dry place, pull it to the Light Touch.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gesture Application: in this section will depend on each machine that has its own features, such as using two fingers to slide short, sometimes is used three fingers to slide up or sliding short (flick) ... For example, you can use two fingers to flick the web browser to browse the content more quickly. If you prefer to use this feature, you can select the Enable box. If felt necessary, you can turn it off.

For machines Elantech driver

of Elantech Driver (also known as Elan Driver) can be seen on some models of Dell (especially netbooks), the Asus, Asus Zenbook, Acer, Compaq machine a few generations old. .. To enable the tuning of Elantech like the Synaptics driver, which is in Control Panel> Mouse> Device Settings. The directory will be listed in the table on the left. His illustrations were photographed using Elan Driver version, but the new machine, the interface is a bit different, but the same features. The only difference is it by the number of fingers used to perform a certain action.

The interface of the new Elantech driver

• Copyright : just an introduction to the touchpad, ignore this guy go.
• Button : set function to hard button trackpad. I think this is nothing more to the custom, unless you are left handed and you want to adjust the two mouse buttons left and right for more convenience with their own habits.
  
  
  
• Tapping : Here, I will illustrate with an Elantech driver has multitouch. By default when we use a finger to touch the touchpad, it is the left mouse manipulation. But for two thumbs and three fingers, you can put features like the shortcut menu (Pop-up Menu), manipulation Back / Forward in the browser, zoom window, zoom window, instead of sports pressing the middle button of the mouse, ... Selected and then click Apply Yes light.
  
  
  
• Scrolling : tweak things related to the mouse wheel here. You can select or remove the scroll up and down or back and forth.
  
  
  
• Zooming : Enables zoom in, zoom out images, or the web by opening two fingers closed. Also, you can choose different actions for two arbitrary actions like this.
• Rotation : Rotate the image, also fixed by putting a finger, fingers rotate the arc. Clockwise is set according to clockwise, and counterclockwise Counterclockwise is the clock. You should set the sensitivity (Sensitivity) High level for easy control.
  
  
  
• Drag and Drop : Allows users drag and drop right on the touchpad without using additional hardware keys support.
  
  
  
• Swipe Pages : enable or disable use three fingers to slide up, down, let up for two keys Page Up, Page Down.

Experience: Do not let wet touchpad

touchpad is very susceptible to moisture, which leads to damage one of the most basic tools of data entry notebook.The reason for this is that some manufacturers design with touchpad not fully enclosed body. Still a few small gaps, when the noise down, it can flow to the inside and cause damage to our equipment. Also, when cleaning the machine, do not spray cleaning solution directly into the machine, especially on the touchpad. I have seen many people doing this, and after a short time they have to bring new touchpad or replacement warranty. My laptop itself has been so.When the sticky hands, then you should also be dry to touch touchpad. perform various operations with Scrybe software

Scrybe is a software application to install the Synaptics development, and it only runs on the laptop using its touchpad. Scrybe has many features, such as drawing lines to perform any actions that enable multi-touch two fingers, three fingers, ... for Windows machines. First of all, please download the Srybe , remember to select the correct operating system where computers are used. Before installing and running Srybe, turn off the mouse software to tweak the software does not conflict with each other. You should also update your touchpad driver to latest version. After installation is complete, you will see a red arrow appears below the clock. From now on, you can scroll with two fingers then. To refine the scroll speed, go to Control Panel> Mouse (or Mouse Settings), then switch to adjust the Wheel tab scroll a few lines in "The sau number of line at a time." However, two finger scrolling are very ordinary, not unusual in comparison with today's technology. Srybe will allow you to quickly open an application, or go to a certain site via manipulation at the same time touching three fingers on the keyboard, then draw a line anywhere on the touchpad. Srybe built a number of lines to choose from for fast, but if you prefer, you can still create your own drawing a new line.

Now, right click on the icon bar Srybe Scrybe clock and select Control Panel. Here you will find a list of the lines with a certain function. Just as the world that do, make sure you have new experiences and fun with the my laptop.

Also want to add a new line drawings, click the + button located in the lower left corner of the application window. A small window will appear with two options is the "Visit Website" (to run the site) or "Launch Application" (to run the application). Choose whatever you want to do. If you select the site, you will have to enter the web address into the box below, and if selected application startup, a small button will appear, use it to browse to the file. EXE of the application that you launch through the drawn line.

Then, click the small arrow next to the blue box and select a drawing that you want. Select then click OK. Now, you try typing with three fingers, then draw some lines and try to experience.