Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 03:21 pm

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Touchpad on laptop question:

Okay, using the latest Synaptics drivers (and the one previous), at increasingly short intervals, my touchpad would jerk up to the upper right of the screen and would keep going there no matter what I tried to do in the screen. Restart fixes it, but I was getting it once a day or less at teh end.

So I downgraded to the 2010 driver that came with my laptop and the scroll is, I kid you not, so hard to do it hurts. I've fixed the settings in various ways, but the scroll is just slow and non-sensitive even racking it up to the highest sensitivity. My entire touchpad is slower, which is why I switched drivers in teh first place years ago, and I don't know why now the direct Synaptic drivers started doing this so constantly.

Does anyone else have this problem or found a way to fix it? Google was not terribly helpful.
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From: [personal profile] mrshamill Date: 2012-07-17 08:40 pm (UTC)
Don't use it. Your laptop will function just fine without the damn driver and all it will give you is fits.

Some years ago, I had an issue with a latitude having massive slowdowns, where the CPU would go to 100% and stay there for minutes at a time. I finally figured out it was the synaptics driver causing the issue, though I never figured out WHY. I deleted the damn driver and her laptop worked just fine without it, and worked better without it.

Moral to the story is synaptics is evil.
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From: [personal profile] seperis Date: 2012-07-17 09:01 pm (UTC)
So should I try and remove the OEM synaptic drivers, too? I'm literal when I say my fingers are starting to hurt from scrolling even after a short time. Like, remove and delete them and let Windows 7 install their drivers? I've been using a mouse now, which I hate because there is a reason I use a laptop (being in bed), but if I could just get the sensitivity and scrolling back up, I could save that for when I'm programming or need more precision.
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From: [personal profile] mrshamill Date: 2012-07-17 10:48 pm (UTC)
I'd go ahead and try that, because Win7 will have generic drivers for your touchpad anyway. I've never had a good experience with Synaptics, and I'm beginning to think I never will.

it might not be the driver

From: [personal profile] imagina Date: 2012-07-18 02:47 am (UTC)
Hi. Delurking to say that I had a similar problem on an HP laptop, except the cursor was always going to the lower right corner. In my case, the screen's magnetism was affecting the touchpad. Try googling that.
You could try opening your laptop a bit more, pushing your screen further away from the keyboard part. Hope it helps.
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