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    L5/702x, Windows 8 & Synaptics

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by supertoast92, Nov 30, 2012.

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    supertoast92 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys, I've made the jump over to Windows 8 with the machine in my sig. While there are a few quirks, I really enjoy this OS. The touchpad driver directly from Synaptics website works quite well, and the new gesture(s) for opening the new menus are nice. There's a minor gripe though that I find rather annoying, especially if I am reading any kind of content (involving scrolling).

    For some reason, Windows will not recognize my two finger scrolling as an action, thus keeping the computer status as "idle" rather than "active." So, since I have the screen dim after a minute, it will stay dimmed until I deliberately move the mouse (single finger movement on the touchpad). I also noticed that, when using two finger scroll, the pointer fails to change to the "scrolling" pointer as it did under Windows 7.

    I would suspect this is due to the touchpad driver itself (16.2.21 from Synaptics' official site), but then again I could be wrong. Does anyone happen to have this issue, or a solution?

    Thanks!
     
    supertoast92, Nov 30, 2012
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