The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Z2 - Disabling all the Mouse extras

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by NotebookBurger, Aug 22, 2011.

  1. NotebookBurger

    NotebookBurger Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    83
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Is there a way to fully *uninstall* the program responsible for all the mousepad "extras" ? Is "SynTPEnh" that program?

    As always, in my experience, these perks just end up making the mouse more difficult to use for basic functions.

    I am aware of the piece by piece "uncheckbox" in the advanced settings for the mouse, but can I for example just uninstall "SynTPEnh" program altogether? (assuming thats the program that handles all the mouse extras)
     
    NotebookBurger, Aug 22, 2011
    #1
  2. shurcooL

    shurcooL Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    68
    Messages:
    745
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Either disable the features that bother you (it takes about 2 minutes to uncheck everything), or uninstall "Synpatics Touchpad Drivers" from Add/Remove Programs.
     
    shurcooL, Aug 22, 2011
    #2
  3. NotebookBurger

    NotebookBurger Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    83
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Tried option 1. Not only did some items get re-checked without me doing it, but the trackpad clearly still has issues, even with everything unchecked. Top right quadrant of the trackpad is almost useless sometimes. for swiping or clicking. Nuff's enough... thank you for the help.
     
    NotebookBurger, Aug 22, 2011
    #3
  4. NotebookBurger

    NotebookBurger Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    83
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Okay I uninstalled Synaptics. Unfortunately as it turns out, Windows apparently isn't familiar with 1920 resolution .... because I have my mouse pointer set to the fastest possible "speed" and I have to do four full swipes now to get the mouse from one side of the screen to the other. Its CLEARLY basing it on pixel distance movement, and since HD is so tiny pixelwise, it thinks its moving "lotsa pixels" but in fact my mouse is barely moving on the screen.

    Now what? I could reinstall the software and have the original problems back. Or is there any way to speed up the mouse faster than windows is currently?
     
    NotebookBurger, Aug 22, 2011
    #4