6860 fx- restored, lost touchpad scrolling

Hello all,

I somewhat recently had to do a restoration on my cpu because I lost a critical windll.dll file of some sort. Thankfully I did as instructed on the forums and made discs for this sort of situation. I installed EVERY driver from the disc but skipped all the applications in order to do a clean install. I noticed that I lost the functionality of the scroll feature on the laptop's touchpad. At first I didn't mind but I am realizing without a mouse hooked up it is quite annoying. Any suggestions on how to remedy this? Is there a default program that would correct the problem? I thought restoring the drivers would fix it but I guess it didn't.

 

Do you have synaptics pointing device installed?

 

now that you mention it I don't think so... I checked the application recovery disc and found no synaptics or pointing device related apps. I did find the synaptics program folder in the recovery file the cpu generated- windows.old. So technically its on the computer and it even has an install file in the folder but it won't launch, it asks for permission (my fave vista feature) and proceeds to do nothing. I'm not really sure how to proceed from here any ideas?

Thank you for your reply and help!

 

I just noticed that too, I just upgraded to 64 bit vista and my scroll does not work. But I have the Synaptic tab in my Mouse menu.

 

I just went to http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm and downloaded the generic driver and now it works.