Comments on: Fixing Firefox Scrolling Problems with Dell Synaptics Touchpad

By: ta

ta — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:57:28 +0000

Try this solution xp pro, and vista
At command prompt, or run box
taskkill /im SynTPEnh.exe

This leaves SynTPEnh in a limbo state (still running), but scroll starts working in firefox. Flat out terminating SynTPEnh.exe stops scrolling from working in anything.
Tested on:
WindowsXP SP3- Synaptics v10.2.4 FF3
Vista SP2- Synaptics V 12.2.4.1 FF 3.5

XP home doesn’t have taskkill. Download nircmd http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
Place executables in windows folder, use the following command:
nircmd closeprocess SynTPEnh.exe

mozillazine post:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/.....;t=1524405

By: GoodBytes

GoodBytes — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:07:35 +0000

(forgot to mention, you need to restart your computer on the above tweak once done to see it in affect)

Another tweak I discovered and ready to share:

In the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alps\Apoint and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Alps\Apoint\

Look for ‘UseCustomGUI’. Change it’s value form 1 to 0.
Now, without system restart, open the Windows Mouse Panel from the Control Panel.

Enjoy the new mouse features, which some of them doesn’t work on my side (but maybe for you).

By: GoodBytes

GoodBytes — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:01:45 +0000

I don’t have this problem with my latitude E6400. But, I got a tweak that you can post related Alps touchpad, and I think you’ll love it:

For sure, you have noted that Windows Vista/Win7 cursor doesn’t animate the second you scroll a page, as the cursor is being replaced with a scrolling cursor, and does a bad job at returning the default Windows cursor. The solution is to prevent the program from showing that scroll cursor. NOTE that touchpad will still be able to scroll.

Fix:
Set ‘CursorChangeType’ value to 0, in 3 locations:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alps\Apoint
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Alps\Apoint
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Alps\Apoint_Default\

Happy mouse animation