The definitive guide to the Envy trackpad

[RACiE]

Hey everyone, are there any third party programs that will enable me to unlock the touchpad while typing? I get that the disabling of the touchpad while typing is supposed to be a benefit, but I like to play games on my PC.

It's strange...for such an expensive laptop, I didn't expect the touchpad to be so finicky. I used to have a much cheaper laptop with a touchpad like a charm.

[Somnio]

I don't have the Envy in front of me right now, but I believe that there is an option on Synaptics's contro panel: a slider you can move to disable the pad x seconds after a keystroke, and you can move it to zero.

[RACiE]

I don't have the Envy in front of me right now, but I believe that there is an option on Synaptics's contro panel: a slider you can move to disable the pad x seconds after a keystroke, and you can move it to zero.

Ahh...unfortunately I didn't see anything like that. The only thing that allows me to move the cursor upon typing is disabling SmartSense. Unfortunately, disabling it causes the cursor to tend to jump from place to place when my hand is accidentally nearby.

Guess I'll just turn it off whenever I want to play a game. Guess it isn't really a huge deal.

[hy565]

A while back someone posted a set of reg. files that allows you to use 3 finger flicks to navigate (forward/back) through windows explorer.

I've recently done a fresh install of win7 and installed the latest synaptics drivers (1.16.00 or something) and those reg files don't seem to work anymore.

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks.

[ashbandicoot]

Is it possible to turn of the highlighting of a word or line with the envy touchpad third party software? Whenever I click on a page, it highlights either a word, a whole line, or the whole page. Seems like it is over sensitive. I tried uninstalling and re-installing the synaptics driver and that fixes the problem, but then I can't use the envy touchpad software. Thanks.

[Mike415]

Is it possible to turn of the highlighting of a word or line with the envy touchpad third party software? Whenever I click on a page, it highlights either a word, a whole line, or the whole page. Seems like it is over sensitive. I tried uninstalling and re-installing the synaptics driver and that fixes the problem, but then I can't use the envy touchpad software. Thanks.

You seem to have your taps registering twice. Once in synaptics once in the touch pad software. Turn one off

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[ashbandicoot]

You seem to have your taps registering twice. Once in synaptics once in the touch pad software. Turn one off

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Yup, that fixed it! Thanks.

[gohan_d1]

Hi,

I am a new envy user who just found this thread. Can anyone please tell me the best possible settings to use my touchpad with? I have scanned the front page but it seems to be written a long time ago and now with a lot of driver updates, im wondering if those drivers/app settings are still the preferred and best ones. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[gnat_]

I tried Reil's software for my Envy 17, and really liked the two finger scrolling settings recommended here (NOW AVAILABLE - Updated ENVY 15, ENVY 17 / ENVY 17 3D, but I ultimately deleted it and went back to Synaptics 8.1 instead.

Why? The deal breaker is that if you rest your finger on the left click button, Synaptics works better. Reil senses two fingers touching and moving apart as the user trying to zoom. Synaptics is better at ignoring the finger resting on the button area and recognizes only the moving finger for cursor movement, which is exactly what I want.

While I think the quadratic scrolling looks nice, Reils kept freezing the mouse cursor in place if I ever rested my thumb on the left click button.

Also, Synaptics has pixel precision two finger scrolling, so even if it doesn't have the nice feeling of inertia, I think that it may look smoother when scrolling.

[gnat_]

I recommend you activate also the "chiral" scrolling, perhaps the best idea of the whole drivers pack.

Agreed! I tried chiral scrolling for the first time, and it's awesome. Start by doing an edge scroll, and then you can twirl your finger in clockwise & counterclockwise circles to scroll infinitely. So much easier than lifting my fingers up and moving them down to initiate another page scroll.