PC Touchpad hacks? Double-finger tap for example?

Are there any hacks for Windows that allow to modify the touchpad? Registry hacks maybe? Or some sort of software?

 

What exactly do you want the touchpad to do?

 

For example:
Scroll down when I use 2 fingers like Macs
Open Start when I tap lower left corner like Thinkpads

 

that would be a great hack, I'd be interested in one if it existed

 

That would be awesome. Unfortunately I doubt most PC touchpads are able to do multi touch.

 

Most touchpad drivers allow for...
1) Horizontal and Vertical Scroll Areas
2) Using all four corners and assign special 'functions' to them.

Control Panel->Mouse

If you can navigate to the 'Device Settings', select the touchpad, then hit 'Settings' you'll find those options.

 

i love how i could tap the lower left corner to get the start menu. However this is possible with most trackpads as greg mentioned. You just have to select the tap zone and choose the option to duplicate keystrokes(the windows button in this case)

 

i have a dv2500 i can set the top left hand corner and top right hand corner to do functions but the only funcions are: shortcut menu, auto scroll, easy launch, easy capture those are kind of useless for me is there anyway to get different functions there?

 

Hey thanks for the info! I disabled my Synaptics as the touchpad worked without it. Now I see that there are numerous settings to be had, enabling page scrolling, etc. That's great!

 

Have you even looked at the options of the Synaptic touch pad? All those mentioned are built in.. no need for a hack. Sometimes what you want is already in front of your face.

 

any way to do this?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=622503
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/cogitations/2007/11/13/two-finger-scrolling-on-ubuntu/

They got double finger scrolling working in Ubuntu on ANY synaptics trackpad... most laptops come with synaptics trackpads. Anyway on getting this hack to work in Windows or OSX86?

 

What is this two finger scrolling? Does it do something better than 1 finger scrolling I normally do?

 

its like on an apple macbook, you can use two fingers, anywhere on the pad, to scroll. IMO, its much more convenient than side scrolling..

 

Synaptics ( http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm) does the trick. Not sure about the two fingered scrolling though.

 

The OP wants Multi tap feature on his Synaptics Touchpad which is not possible.
But Scrolling n all are already present.. even ClickLock is present which allows u to drag a window without using Buttons

 

it is possible... in linux, read my above post

 

it's possible if it worked on Ubuntu.. Just need someone to code a hack

 

After much trial and error, I got 2-finger scrolling under Mac OSX86 Leopard on my Dell XPS m1330:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=88811

Now we need a windows hack!

Being able to scroll from anywhere on the trackpad = awesome

 

Looks like we need Lawrence (i think thats how his name's spelled)

 

haha! Thanks for the tip harpreet1988... After you sent a pm. I went to the supermarket about 1.5km from my house. While Walking something pop-up in my head, Maybe we need a different thing. We need something new here. Anyway, That's a great new feature to WinFlog eXTreMe...Ok Guys I'll think about that...Nice idea...

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hey...Winbubble 1.65 has been updated yesterday

 

Windows Hack is what we Need! man so it does Work on Ubuntu