2 Finger Scrolling for the PC

Have you always wanted to try the 2 finger scroll on a PC after trying it out on the Mac? If you have a laptop with a touchpad by Synaptics, you can try a little program that enables two finger scrolling on the PC.

Go to: http://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/downloads/list

MSI Wind U100 Netbook Touchpad Driver Solution

We recently got the MSI Wind U100 US/French/German/Polish edition and found out the touchpad is missing the side scrolling function and has the default control of clicking and double clicking on the touchpad which could not be disabled. The Wind uses the default Windows XP mouse driver with no special touchpad driver. Apparently, this is something that MSI had downgraded for whatever cost saving reason (I assume someone at MSI did not pay enough for lap dances to some name brand touchpad company official) but it is highly annoying because you end up accidentally clicking on links, especially personal ads on Yahoo, because you have shaky fingers from alcohol withdrawal or early onset Parkinson's. There are a lot of forums incessantly discussing and howling at this atrocity but I just went to Synaptics and downloaded their driver and application and avoided the drama.

Solutions:

Go to Synaptics and download the appropriate driver:
http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers

This bundled driver and application that you install is accessed through an icon in the lower right corner of the XP menu bar or the XP mouse control panel and allows you to control every aspect of the touchpad from disabling touchpad clicking, turning on touchpad side scrolling, etc.

There are forums out there that point you to a German MSI website that allows you to download the Sentelic touchpad driver which I tried and did absolutely nothing for me. I tried installing the Sentelic touchpad driver before the Synaptics driver. If you want to waste 10 minutes of your life, here it is:

http://www.msi-technology.de/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1474