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May 4th, 2013 09:00
Disabling Horizontal Scroll?
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop and I cannot figure out how to disable horizontal scrolling! Whenever I watch a YouTube video and move my mouse to the right or left, it fast-forwards or rewinds the video. I'm sick of this and have searched everywhere in my touchpad settings and Google to find an answer on how to remove this feature.
Can anyone help?
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May 4th, 2013 10:00
You didn't mention your model,but if you have an Alps touchpad checkout the picture and video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhlj1-sY9U
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May 4th, 2013 17:00
My model is the 5520
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May 4th, 2013 17:00
I just installed the ELAN touchpad driver on my laptop which is of course the wrong one for my laptop - wanted to see what options are available....
If you don't have a mouse icon in the system tray tray available or the devicemanager doesn't list explicitly a Dell touchpad download & install the driver.
Download link : http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/ie/en/iedhs1/Product/inspiron-15r-5520
Make sure to choose the right OS (Win8 or Win7).
Installation procedure is the same as in the video (my previous post)
Hope it works.....
stellee123
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May 4th, 2013 19:00
I installed the driver and restarted my computer, but all it did was reset my settings to the default. There are no changes.
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May 5th, 2013 06:00
Forgot something:
Try booting into safe mode first .In safe mode Dell's driver should be deactivated and you can test the touchpad with basic Windows driver only.
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May 5th, 2013 06:00
If the touchpad software doesn't save your settings try uninstalling Dell''s driver.I think that the driver was already pre-installed and got somehow corrupted.
Normally a touchpad doesn't need additional drivers - Windows itself should provide a basic driver for it.This basic driver does not support scrolling,zoom,touchpad on/off etc - these features are only available after installing Dell's driver.
If you can live with that (I can - I use the Windows driver only) give it a try.
First create a system restore point - in case something goes wrong.
Go to Add/Remove programs and check if there is an entry for Dell's touchpad - uninstall it and reboot.After that the touchpad entry in the devicemanager should have changed from "Dell touchpad" to "PS/2 compatible mouse" (or something similar.).
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May 5th, 2013 08:00
Before that, I'd like to add something. Now that I have both (I think that's what you're saying), I get a little message at the touchpad symbol on my taskbar. It's only a split second every time I restart, so I can't read it. Any idea what it might be trying to say?
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May 5th, 2013 09:00
Don't know what that message could be - sorry.
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May 5th, 2013 11:00
Okay, well I just now got to see it when I logged in and it said the touchpad is enabled.
And about the driver being pre-installed - it was the same thing that my laptop came with.
If I uninstall Dell's driver and only have the basic one, wouldn't that limit my options even further? Or rather take away the added horizontal scroll?
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May 5th, 2013 12:00
Windows basic driver gives you just simple functionality of the touchpad : see screenshots.
I don't know why the Dell's driver software is not able to keep the touchpad settings - all you can do is uninstalling and reinstalling the software and
if this doesn't help restoring the factory image.But the latter step is something you have to decide yourself ....
As I already wrote - try booting into safe mode and see for yourself what it feels like to have just a "simple" touchpad