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AnimilesA
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Hello,

 

I'm using a Lenovo Y50-70, but I have some issues when I scroll using the touchpad (2 finger scroll)

When I'm using a browser (for instance) it works fine. the scroll speed is perfect. It is also perfect in other programs that allow to scroll per pixel instead of per line.

A program like Visual Studio scrolls per line, so where I would scroll 1 line in a browser, it scrolls about 30 in Visual Studio (and some other programs).

I tried to change the lines per scroll. This makes it slower, but still too fast and too sensitive. This also makes scrolling with a mouse, or scrolling with the touchpad in a browser way too slow.

I have no clue how I can make the touchpad scrolling usable while it doesn't affect the programs where it works fine.

If anyone has an idea on how I can fix it, please reply.

 

Thanks

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What OS are you running?

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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Try going into mouse options, and turning down your overall mouse speed.

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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1 hour ago, Little Bear said:

What OS are you running?

Windows 10.

1 hour ago, Little Bear said:

Try going into mouse options, and turning down your overall mouse speed.

The mouse speed is perfectly fine. I don't want to change that at all. The problem is only while I scroll with the touchpad in some programs like Visual Studio.

Even though I was pretty sure it wouldn't do anything I still tried it. Result, the mouse speed was very slow and the scrolling (with the touchpad) was still as uncontrollable as before. Thanks for the suggestion though :)

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Has it always been this way?

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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Just now, Little Bear said:

Has it always been this way?

I'm not sure. There is a very select amount of programs that have this problem, and I recently started using visual studio a lot, so I had no real need to fix it before. Because I had no real need to fix this before I don't remember if it has always been this way or not, or maybe I never used an application that had this problem with the touchpad.

I don't think that I had this problem in Windows 8, but I can't be sure about it.

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9 minutes ago, AnimilesA said:

I'm not sure. There is a very select amount of programs that have this problem, and I recently started using visual studio a lot, so I had no real need to fix it before. Because I had no real need to fix this before I don't remember if it has always been this way or not, or maybe I never used an application that had this problem with the touchpad.

I don't think that I had this problem in Windows 8, but I can't be sure about it.

Try checking this out: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/15103-latest-synaptics-touchpad-drivers/

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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2 minutes ago, Little Bear said:

Try checking this out: https://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/15103-latest-synaptics-touchpad-drivers/

today I can't afford to screw something up with drivers, so I won't be able to test this today. But I will try it in the near future. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

(If anyone has another suggestion, feel free to reply :) )

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51 minutes ago, AnimilesA said:

today I can't afford to screw something up with drivers, so I won't be able to test this today. But I will try it in the near future. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

(If anyone has another suggestion, feel free to reply :) )

This is a question, so I can ask a follow up question: Are you good at troubleshooting?

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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5 minutes ago, AnimilesA said:

I can't consider myself good at troubleshooting. But I also can't say that I'm bad at it.

I know this probably sounds like a bad omen, but I just want to help right now, I'm kinda going through some shit, so it would be nice to at least try to make someone else's day. Do you mind if I try something in teamviewer? If you're uncomfortable with that, I can try to type out what to do.

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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7 minutes ago, Little Bear said:

I know this probably sounds like a bad omen, but I just want to help right now, I'm kinda going through some shit, so it would be nice to at least try to make someone else's day. Do you mind if I try something in teamviewer? If you're uncomfortable with that, I can try to type out what to do.

I have an exam in 35 minutes, so I don't think it is a good idea right now. It starts at 17:00 for me (I need to use my laptop on my exam. That's why I don't want to try things with drivers). When I finally get home I'm most likely too tired to think properly.
Besides that, I'm not comfortable at all to allow someone access with teamviewer. I have the feeling I can trust you, but I can never be sure when it comes to random people on the internet.

I really appreciate that you want to help though! That on its own already makes my day :)

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3 minutes ago, AnimilesA said:

I have an exam in 35 minutes, so I don't think it is a good idea right now. It starts at 17:00 for me (I need to use my laptop on my exam. That's why I don't want to try things with drivers). When I finally get home I'm most likely too tired to think properly.
Besides that, I'm not comfortable at all to allow someone access with teamviewer. I have the feeling I can trust you, but I can never be sure when it comes to random people on the internet.

I really appreciate that you want to help though! That on its own already makes my day :)

Would you like me to type a 'tutorialistic' for you to follow to see If my theory works? It shouldn't take but two-three minutes at most on your part.

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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22 hours ago, Little Bear said:

Would you like me to type a 'tutorialistic' for you to follow to see If my theory works? It shouldn't take but two-three minutes at most on your part.

The drivers you've posted aren't available anymore. I also don't think it'll work. I currently have ELAN drivers.

I found another application that has the problem of fast scrolling. It is SQLiteman. It also doesn't support smooth scrolling, which makes any small movement scroll 3 lines.

 

While typing I noticed something strange. In Windows there is an option "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them". I have that turned on. I currently work with two monitors, and I tried to scroll in visual studio while I had the browser selected. The scroll in visual studio works perfectly when Visual Studio is not selected. But once I select Visual Studio again it will scroll at lightspeed again. So I also tested it with SQLiteman, and it also works there.

But I can't always select another window if I want to scroll, that would be way too inefficient. So I still have to fix it somehow..

 

If you want to type out the "tutorial" It'd be great. But of course only if it isn't too much work for you :)

 

edit: I am currently installing Visual Studio 2017 RC. I hope that that handles scrolling differently. It will not solve my problem, but it could make it bearable again. I'll let you know if this works.

(It took an hour to get to 22%, so I'm not sure when I'll be able to post the results).

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  1. Open Device Manager
  2. Go into "Mice and other pointing devices"
  3. Right click on the one that says "Touchpad", or something similar
  4. Select "Uninstall"
  5. Tick the box that says "Delete the driver software for this device"
  6. Restart

 

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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On 13/12/2016 at 5:10 PM, Little Bear said:
  1. Open Device Manager
  2. Go into "Mice and other pointing devices"
  3. Right click on the one that says "Touchpad", or something similar
  4. Select "Uninstall"
  5. Tick the box that says "Delete the driver software for this device"
  6. Restart

 

What should I do afterwards? I did already re-install the latest drivers btw. And I tried to install earlier versions. I'm not sure if there weren't any compatible drivers or if I tried it and it didn't work.

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10 hours ago, AnimilesA said:

What should I do afterwards? I did already re-install the latest drivers btw. And I tried to install earlier versions. I'm not sure if there weren't any compatible drivers or if I tried it and it didn't work.

It will automatically reinstall the drivers; if that doesn't work try opening an elevated command prompt and running "sfc /scannow"

Motivation is where, and what you make of it.

 

“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, ‘Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”  —Albert Einstein

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Try this,

Open regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> SOFTWARE -> Elantech -> Smartpad, change ScrollControl_Mode from 0 to 1

 

I found a solution here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-IdeaPad-1xx-3xx-5xx-7xx-Edge-LaVie-Z-Flex-Notebooks/Touchpad-is-scrolling-too-fast/m-p/5053032 It worked for me and I had the same problem

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On 9/4/2021 at 5:53 AM, Pero_ said:

Try this,

Open regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> SOFTWARE -> Elantech -> Smartpad, change ScrollControl_Mode from 0 to 1

 

I found a solution here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-IdeaPad-1xx-3xx-5xx-7xx-Edge-LaVie-Z-Flex-Notebooks/Touchpad-is-scrolling-too-fast/m-p/5053032 It worked for me and I had the same problem

dude, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

like the first mate up there in the thread i've been struggling a LOT with vscode and the obnoxious scroll speed the touchpad had on it (at the time i literally had to set my scroll speed multiplier to 0,01 to make it be somewhat usable)

 

i know its a quite old post, but that was a life saver right there.

much love. thx.

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