TweakUI and my Synaptic Touchpad

"CptCeeJay" <CptCeeJay.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D06730CF-C116-4AE8-A5ED-44F4DEDFE481@microsoft.com...
> I recently downloaded TweakUI and ran it on my laptop. It seemed to function as advertised until I realized it took control of my
touchpad.

Took control how?

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Alec S.
news/alec->synetech/cjb/net

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm not that familiar with changing my
registry but would like to learn more about these things. I realize I can
cause serious heartache if I get something wrong in my registry - so I'll do
so cautiously. What property in my registry would I need to change and how
would I need to change it to use TweakUI and still use my Synaptics mouse
controls.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> CptCeeJay wrote:
> > I recently downloaded TweakUI and ran it on my laptop. It seemed to
> > function
> > as advertised until I realized it took control of my touchpad. I prefer
> > the
> > functions of my Synaptics driver over the TweakUI/microsoft driver and had
> > to
> > re-install that driver. Can I use TweakUI and disable it's mouse options?
>
> TweakUI has no 'mouse driver'. It simply sets the registry settings that
> you tell it to.
>
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> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Alec,
Thanks for getting back to me.
Before using TweakUI the "Mouse" link in my control panel brought up a
Synaptics touchpad options box. After installing TweakUI the "Mouse" link in
the control panel would respond with a message saying it could not find the
Synaptics driver. Also after installing TweakUI the only mouse options box I
could get to seemed to be a generic Windows driver box. Also - the touchpad
on my Dell laptop has an area in the horizontal and vertical edges that
function like wheels allowing for faster scrolling. These were disabled when
I installed TweakUI.
The bottom line is that I seemed to lose the Synaptics features of my
touchpad and they were replaced with generic Windows functions.
Thanks for your help.
- CJ

"Alec S." wrote:

> "CptCeeJay" <CptCeeJay.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D06730CF-C116-4AE8-A5ED-44F4DEDFE481@microsoft.com...
> > I recently downloaded TweakUI and ran it on my laptop. It seemed to function as advertised until I realized it took control of my
> touchpad.
>
> Took control how?
>
> --
> Alec S.
> news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
>
>
>

BTW - Thanks for including the "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" FAQ at
the bottom of your signature... It was most instructive to this newbie.
- CJ

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> CptCeeJay wrote:
> > I recently downloaded TweakUI and ran it on my laptop. It seemed to
> > function
> > as advertised until I realized it took control of my touchpad. I prefer
> > the
> > functions of my Synaptics driver over the TweakUI/microsoft driver and had
> > to
> > re-install that driver. Can I use TweakUI and disable it's mouse options?
>
> TweakUI has no 'mouse driver'. It simply sets the registry settings that
> you tell it to.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

I’ve just had my Inspiron 6400 for a couple of weeks, I experienced
the same thing. Found you on a search for the problem and hadn’t
realized that it was probably TweakUi that did it! Probably you are
right. I have only gotten the Touchpad back with reinstalling the
drivers but can’t get that very useful Options box that allowed the
vert/horiz scrolling and the 4 "hot spots" on the touchpad corners.
Anyway, am still searching and hate to System Restore back that far,
it may bring all that bloatware back!...... Will post here if I have
any luck

Cheers

Zhenya

"CptCeeJay" wrote:
> Alec,
> Thanks for getting back to me.
> Before using TweakUI the "Mouse" link in my control panel
> brought up a
> Synaptics touchpad options box. After installing TweakUI the
> "Mouse" link in
> the control panel would respond with a message saying it
> could not find the
> Synaptics driver. Also after installing TweakUI the only mouse
> options box I
> could get to seemed to be a generic Windows driver box. Also -
> the touchpad
> on my Dell laptop has an area in the horizontal and vertical
> edges that
> function like wheels allowing for faster scrolling. These were
> disabled when
> I installed TweakUI.
> The bottom line is that I seemed to lose the Synaptics
> features of my
> touchpad and they were replaced with generic Windows
> functions.
> Thanks for your help.
> - CJ
>
> "Alec S." wrote:
>
> > "CptCeeJay" <CptCeeJay DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D06730CF-C116-4AE8-A5ED-44F4DEDFE481@microsoft.com...
> > > I recently downloaded TweakUI and ran it on my laptop. It
> seemed to function as advertised until I realized it took
> control of my
> > touchpad.
> >
> > Took control how?
> >
> > --
> > Alec S.
> > news/alec->synetech/cjb/net
> >
> >
> >

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