Re: the touchpad in my laptop won't scroll

"most people want that turned off"

Really? I don't know why they would. It was a selling point for my HP
dv8000 laptop (which now has the same problem). Its much more
convenient to effortlessly point to the edge of the touchpad and scroll
the page up or down - without having to hunt for the page's scroll bar
and click on it in order to scroll. duh?

My touchpad is a Synaptics and the two apps running at startup are:
Sntpstart
Sntpenh

The non scrolling problem appears several times a day and is most
aggravating. Come on - its 2008! Can't anyone invent a touchpad that
actually works??


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"cartoonman" <cartoonman.3b0snf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "most people want that turned off"
>
> Really? I don't know why they would. It was a selling point for my HP
> dv8000 laptop (which now has the same problem). Its much more
> convenient to effortlessly point to the edge of the touchpad and scroll
> the page up or down - without having to hunt for the page's scroll bar
> and click on it in order to scroll. duh?
>
> My touchpad is a Synaptics and the two apps running at startup are:
> Sntpstart
> Sntpenh
>
> The non scrolling problem appears several times a day and is most
> aggravating. Come on - its 2008! Can't anyone invent a touchpad that
> actually works??
>

It's not that the scroll feature of the touchpad has stopped working. It's
just very difficult to use properly. If you don't land your finger in just
the right place it doesn't activate the scroll feature.