Hi,

is the scrolling function integrated to the TouchPad? (Up/down in the right area).
I know and LOVE! this funktion from the SRK41.
Also jump back (in the browser) with a fingersnip in the upper region?

Thanks, Rainer

scrolling - yes, great feature. not sure about jumping back, not done that before

Yes, you can jump back. In fact, that was the default factory setting on my TR1. The top of the TouchPad had a jump back and a forward area.

It drove me nuts so I disabled it using the TouchPad control (icon in the right-hand side of the Taskbar).

Unfortunately, somewhere along the line I removed the TouchPad icon from the Taskbar. I can’t seem to re-enable it. I did right-click on the Taskbar, and was able to see the TouchPad in a “Customize Notifications” window. I could choose to “Always show” the TouchPad. But doing this did not move the TouchPad icon from the Past Items list to the Current Items list.

If anyone knows how to restore the TouchPad control program, please let me know. Thanks!

To regain the icon in the tray icon area, go to control panels -> mouse and find the miscellaneous tab. Look for the check box for Display Icon in Task Bar and click it and you should have it back.

THANKS!

So I have realy no more arguments aginst the purchase… :wink:

looks like kensington has taken over control panel / mouse and there is no misc tab there. i had no idea you could do cool things with the touchpad and would like to try it!! but how?

you will either have to uninstall the kensington software or reinstall the alps point software. To do that, you need open the mouse properties and choose to update the driver. it should pull up a list of already installed drivers. Pick the alps one and it will re-copy the files and give you back all of the touchpad tabs and functionality.

ah, ya cant have both eh, not that i even know what the kensington driver does but maybe make that pretty red light come on.

Yeah, that’s the sucky part right now that you can’t have two different softwares right now unless it’s specifically different. For instance, my Wacom tablet gets along well with the Alps pointing software since it has its own control panel. My MS Bluetooth mouse software, on the other hand, totally removes the Alps software and doesn’t play friendly at all.

Groovyone, I don’t have the Miscellaneous tab to which you referred.

When I go to Control Panel, then Mouse, I have one choice only. A window “Mouse Properties” comes up with the tabs Button, Pointers, Pointer Options, and Hardware.

None of these references any TouchPad features (e.g. the ability to select parts of the pad for scrolling and forwards/back button presses). Also, none of these has any setting for the toolbar icon.

Under Hardware, there is only one device (at this time, with no mouse or digitizing tablet plugged into my Vaio TR1). It is “Alps Pointing-device”. If I click on the Properties button, a new window comes up, “Alps Pointing-device Properties”. This window has the tabs General, Advanced Settings and Driver. Again, no control works with TouchPad features or does anything about Toolbar icons. In fact, under Advanced Settings is an item that says “Wheel Detection: Assume wheel is present”.

On the Driver tab, I have the following:
    Driver Provider: Alps
    Driver Date: 02/27/2003
    Driver Version: 5.3.509.2
    Digital Signer: MS Windows Hardware Compatibility Publi[rest cut off]

If I select Update Driver, and use the Hardware Update Wizard, I find three mouse driver choices. Two say “Alps Pointing-device” and the third says “PS/2 Compatible Mouse”. This is with “Show compatible hardware” checked.

If I uncheck “Show compatible hardware”, there are two drivers listed under “Alps Electric”: Alps Film Pointing-device and Alps Pointing-device.

OK, so that is the state of my system. All I want to do is get the TouchPad icon back so I can change features on the TouchPad. I can even see the TouchPad icon in the list of Toolbar icons mentioned in my previous message.

I don’t want to load in a new driver unless you’re sure the new driver is the “real” one for the TouchPad.

Thanks for any help,

—Patrick

Ok. Don’t worry, you’re not upgrading any “new” driver. You’re simply forcing Windows to “reload” the current driver (5.3.509.2) so it won’t foul things up.

So, open up the Control Panels -> Mouse and go to the hardware tab. Click on the properties of the Alps pointing device.

Choose to update the driver and you will see the following dialog box. You want to manually find the driver.

When you see the list of devices, pick the first one you see. You may or may not have multiple entries in your list. It shouldn’t matter. Just pick the first one.

The files will copy over and everything should be done.

When you’re done you should have something like this…sans the CursorXP and Special Effects tabs unless you have that installed.

You should restart your system once you’ve completed all of these steps. Chances are that the new tabs will be there already but a restart should be done just in case.

Let me know if this works (or doesn’t) for you.

-victor

Groovyone, reinstalling the driver did the trick! I now have the TouchPad icon back on the toolbar, and the Control Panel/Mouse settings now include the TouchPad features. Your procedure was very clear and simple—thanks!

For anyone who is interested, here are the settings for what Hose was talking about in his first post on this topic, where you can have certain areas of the TouchPad do scrolling, or going back/forwards through web pages.

I can get the up and down scroll to work and even the diagonal action to close the window pane, but i can’t get the forward and back browser buttons to work, i have selected the sliding finger, is there any thing else i should have done?
Ps which blind/skin have you used pmurph?

The Left Corner Assign setting does not matter. To get the forward/back button function, you must check Use Web Assistant. The graphics of the double-headed yellow arrow indicate where to tap/press.

It is probably easiest to practice with Left Corner Assign set to None. That way, you won’t accidentally trigger things in the left corner!

It takes a little practice to get used to the Web Assistant operation. Try pressing (instead of a press-and-release tap) and hold for a second, before moving left or right. Try some different pressing approaches and see what works best for you.

Your results will also depend on the settings under the Tapping tab; for example, Tapping Speed and Drag Lock Settings.

Oh yes, practice on an Internet Explorer browser window that has been navigated through, so the forward and back functions will actually work!

Since you’re in this screen, it might be fun to play with the other Left Corner Assign functions. AutoScroll is cool, and Shortcut Menu is helpful if you use the right mouse button shortcuts a lot. For Easy Launcher and Easy Capture you have to set some things up in the Miscellaneous tab (Easy Capture Settings and Easy Launcher Settings buttons).

Finally, you asked about my skin. Hmmm, I don’t know! I just set the Display Properties dialog, Theme tab to “Windows XP (Modified)” I think that theme comes with Windows XP.

[quote author=“Mrs Gadget”]I can get the up and down scroll to work and even the diagonal action to close the window pane, but i can’t get the forward and back browser buttons to work, i have selected the sliding finger, is there any thing else i should have done?
Ps which blind/skin have you used pmurph?

Perhaps you were referring to the skin I was using for all of those screenshots? It’s a MSSTYLE called Ibar and it’s available for TGTSOFT’s StyleXP program (for skinning your OS).

I am sorry I can’t get this finger tapping to work for the web browsing, should I have drag lock ticked? I am begining to feel like I have got a dicey finger?