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    Envy 15 - Newer touchpad drivers available

    Discussion in 'HP' started by zirra, Sep 12, 2010.

  1. zirra

    zirra Notebook Enthusiast

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    The latest available from HP's envy 15 page is date/version:
    "2009-11-06 , Version:14.0.11.2 A"

    but you can use the envy 14's drivers which has a newer version and it'll work just fine:
    "2010-07-20 , Version:15.0.17.4"

    I don't really see any improvements to my choppy two finger scrolling problem, but it's good for those who are itching to have an updated driver for their Envy 15 lol. Send some feedback to see if it is help any of you guys out and if you have a solution to the choppy two finger scrolling problem.

    Here's the link to the envy 14's drivers page:
    Software & Driver Downloads HP ENVY 14-1010nr Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)
     
    zirra, Sep 12, 2010
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    zirra Notebook Enthusiast

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    *Also remember to uninstall your current drivers first through the uninstall program in the control panel with a restart before installing the new drivers and the same goes for switching back if you don't like it.
     
    zirra, Sep 12, 2010
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    moviemarketing Milk Drinker

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    The choppiness is not the touchpad driver, it's Windows.

    With various mice or touchpads on various laptops, I have never found a way to zoom or scroll in Windows as smoothly as you can in OSX. In Windows both are always a bit jerky.

    You can improve it a bit by enabling momentum, glide and coasting for 2-finger scrolling, as well as adjusting the "number of lines" setting for the wheel on the mouse properties, although the last setting would need to be adjusted back if you switch to using a mouse instead of the touchpad. Also, ChromeTouch is an extension for Google Chrome that enables scrolling and zooming on webpages in a way similar to on the iPhone, by pulling and dragging the page around.
     
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    chocolatedonut Notebook Guru

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    zirra Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh yeah you're right those drivers are much newer than the one I posted, thanks.
     
    zirra, Sep 12, 2010
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