TweakUI and my Synaptic Touchpad

[Guest]

Hello,
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?
Thanks for your time.
- CJ

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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.

 

[Alec S.]

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?

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[zhenya]

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

Zheny