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    Elfan Smartpad Middle Click problem (Asus n56vz)

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Fumler, Sep 1, 2012.

  1. Fumler

    Fumler Newbie

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    Hello.

    Not quite sure if this is the right place to post this, but I spent all night googling this issue, and I just can't find an answer to my problem.

    I have an ASUS N56VZ notebook. This notebook has an Elfan Smartpad as a touchpad, which allows multi-touch.

    The pre-installed drivers seemed to be a mix of the asus elfan drivers and asus' "smart gestures" program.

    Now, the problem is that on another ASUS notebook my mate has (K-series, not sure about exact model) the two-finger doubletap functions as middle mouse button, which lets you open links in a new tab, and close tabs. But on my notebook this feature is not there.

    And there is no option for it either as you can see here:
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    ( http://i.imgur.com/G2RgR.png)

    I read on the web that you could do some stuff in registry or edit the ini files before install so I uninstalled elan drivers and the asus smart gestures and installed a fresh copy of K-series drivers since those worked for my mate. The options window still looked exactly the same.

    So now I uninstalled those, and instead ONLY installed the ASUS Smart Gestures. In this driver there was the same options as in the elan drivers. No way for me to two-finger double tap as middle mouse.

    So my question is, does anyone have any idea how I can get two-finger double-tap to work as middle mouse?

    I really need this :ยง
     
    Fumler, Sep 1, 2012
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  2. Fumler

    Fumler Newbie

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    ASUS N53 has this feature, single-tap with 2 fingers function as middle-mouse, I tried downloading those drivers but they do not work on my PC.

    So bumping in the hope that someone who knows sees this.
     
    Fumler, Sep 5, 2012
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    Bumping this in hope that maybe some smart guy has got an N56VZ now.
     
    Fumler, Sep 28, 2012
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    nipsen Notebook Ditty

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    Hm? Hm! :p

    No.. I thought the Smartgesture thing had that setting enabled by default...?

    But if not just go here: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download Touchpad

    And download one of the "Elantech touchpad driver" packages. I think the last version is smaller because it doesn't include the videos that demonstrate the different gestures..

    Will be a restart involved, and you might lose the touchpad for a bit. So you would have to use some shortcuts/tabbing/arrows, or an external mouse to do the restart.

    But you just need to install the Elantech drivers, and then uninstall the "Smartgesture" program from the uninstall menu in the Control Panel.
     
    nipsen, Sep 29, 2012
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