I have an HP EliteBook. I find the touchpad very hard to use. On my old laptop, if I moved my finger across the height of the touchpad, the arrow or cursor would move across the height of my screen. With the EliteBook, I need to move my finger across the touchpad 4 times to get the arrow or cursor to move across the entire height of my screen.
Scrolling is even worse. On my old laptop, I was able to use chiral scrolling, which allowed me to scroll as much as I wanted without ever lifting my finger from the touchpad. On the EliteBook, it does not appear chiral scrolling is support. Rather, I need to use two-finger scrolling, which requires me to move two fingers across the surface area of my touchpad 7 times just to scroll down a single page in Word.
Can any of this be fixed or addressed?
Issues with touchpad on HP EliteBook
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Issues with touchpad on HP EliteBook
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Re: Issues with touchpad on HP EliteBook
A search for:
hp elitebook adjust touchpad sensitivity
returns lots of hits. Do any of those ideas help?
Ken
hp elitebook adjust touchpad sensitivity
returns lots of hits. Do any of those ideas help?
Ken
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Re: Issues with touchpad on HP EliteBook
I don't want to change the sensitivity. I want to change the amount of space that the arrow moves on my screen when I move my finger across the touchpad.
I am trying to follow the instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comm ... synaptics/. They state:
Navigate to *Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPCpl\Controls\03TabScroll*
However, in Registry Editor, when I get to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPCpl\Controls, there is no 03TabScroll subfolder (or any other subfolder).
I am trying to follow the instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comm ... synaptics/. They state:
Navigate to *Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPCpl\Controls\03TabScroll*
However, in Registry Editor, when I get to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPCpl\Controls, there is no 03TabScroll subfolder (or any other subfolder).
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Re: Issues with touchpad on HP EliteBook
A search for "Enable Chiral Scrolling on Synaptics Touchpads" yields several hits. If you can't find anything helpful after reviewing some of these articles, contacting the official HP Support site for your particular location would seem to be the next logical step.
John
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