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You should have a noticeable difference in smoothness in your scrolling now. (The area by the time in the bottom right corner of your screen.) When you run it, a little hand icon should pop-up in your system tray. You may find out that Synaptics is the manufacturer behind your trackpad as well.ĭownload and extract TwoFingerScroll. Similarly, if the name of your device is anything other than Synaptics, just give it a quick Google search. So, now I know that I can use the Synaptics software. Fortunately, after a quick Google search, I found out that UltraNav is just Lenovo’s brand for their Synaptics trackpads. You can clearly see that mine doesn’t: it says Lenovo, and the name is UltraNav Pointing Device. In the Manufacturer tab, it could say Synaptics. How do you know if your trackpad is manufactured by Synaptics? In that same Mouse window that you were in before, navigate to Hardware. This application works for all Synaptics-based trackpads. The second solution is a utility called TwoFingerScroll.

If so adjust the configuration until it suites your needs.

See if there are any options that would control your scrolling aside from the ones mentioned above.

Depending on your hardware there may be addition menu items or options.

You will want to decrease the number of lines for a “smoother” effect.

Click on the Wheel tab, and you can adjust the “number of lines” per wheel notch.Click Start, click Control Panel, and click Mouse under the Hardware and Sound category.This doesn’t make things that much smoother, but does allow you to retain more control over how fast the the trackpad scroll moves in Windows Explorer. I found two solutions: the first is to decrease the number of lines that Windows scrolls down vertically.

However, when I’m reading a piece or typing up a document, I have to use the up and down arrow keys because I don’t trust the trackpad to do land in the right spot. To be fair, scrolling does accelerate and it is precise to do most tasks. This isn’t the case with Lenovo and Windows. There’s a great degree of control and precision with the Macbook trackpad. (Neither Windows or Lenovo’s best highlight.) One of the things I really never got over was the relatively choppy trackpad (or touchpad) scrolling. When I first made the transition from my Macbook Pro to the Lenovo laptop I have now, I had a bunch of things to adapt to.