"MacBook Like" Multitouch On Your Vaio

First... YOU MUST HAVE A SYNAPTICS TOUCHPAD

Ok, so awhile back I bought an Apple refurb 13" MacBook Pro, and I fell in love with the trackpad! So when I bought my CW I was thinking that this is the best trackpad I've felt on a laptop since my mac, and since it was synaptics, they offer great multitouch support (compared to ALPS). After some tweaks and a modded driver installation, I have the closest possible experience that windows can offer compared to the mac. First I downloaded the modified 10.2.4 synaptics multitouch drivers, then installed them. After a quick reboot, I went into the synaptics touchpad settings page on the mouse settings panel on the control panel.

Start>Control Panel>Mouse>Device Settings>Settings ... then the synaptics control panel should come up..
Under the scrolling tab I left all the checkboxes checked...
I disabled "Pinch Zoom" (ugh, thats annoying on windows, mac got that one right..)
I disabled ChiralRotate
I turned up the touch sensitivity just a tad bit...
I disabled "Momentum"
I disabled "EdgeMotion"
All "Pointing Enhancements" disabled
"Buttons" are enabled
"Tapping" is enabled
And finally "Two-Finger Flick" is ENABLED.

THEN

After all those options are set, go to this link and download the program named "2 Finger Scroll". After downloading that, it comes as an executable, so just go to your downloads folder and run the app... When you run the app, make sure to NOT delete it, and don't move it. Just leave it there or move it to a folder where you know it won't be deleted. The check the box that says "Start with Windows".
Scrolling should be set on "Linear" with keep scrolling on the edges checked...
Scroll mode should be "Smooth" (any version of Firefox after 3 supports smooth scroll, just make sure you have the "Smooth Scroll" option checked in the Firefox options window.
Also, disable "acceleration (it doesn't work very well yet.)
Now I can't seem to get the 2-finger tapping to work yet, but I haven't really played with that much yet... though I do know I like it on my Mac.

 

Thanks, but do you have ChiralScroll (named ChiralMotion to the official driver) ?

 

Is it a free download? I followed the link and saw the video, but how do you get the app?
thanks

 

This driver from sony has ChiralMotion... Here.

 

I uninstalled the old Synaptics drivers on my Win 7 x64 SR220 and installed these modded drivers, but I don't see Two-Finger Flick in my options.

When I run TwoFingerScroll.exe after restarting, it says "Driver support for multiple fingers is already enabled but the driver still doesn't report multiple fingers. Either you haven't restarted the system yet or your TouchPad doesn't support multiple fingers.

What's wrong?

 

What model is your Vaio?

 

It's an SR 220.

 

Does your control panel look like this? I have noticed that on some of the computers that I do this trick on, the Synaptics control panels don't always look the same.

 

I installed the driver from your link, but it shows V7.0 instead of V7.2...

 

Ok, sorry... I'm obviously the biggest idiot alive... lol. I used the drivers with the latest update from Sony. Try this... even though this download is from the CW page, it's not product specific... a synaptics touchpad is usually just the same as all the other synaptics touchpads. Everyone just has a different driver version. This is 13.2.6.1, and it should give you the version 7.2 in the synaptics options panel.

 

maybe it's just not meant to be....
i also tried the 14.0.12 [ http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/15103-latest-synaptics-touchpad-drivers/ ] and synaptic's official 14.0.3... still no luck either

where did you get the link to the modded version?

 

I got them here.