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Enabling Additional Features on Synaptics Touchpad

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I think majority of modern laptops use Synaptic touchpad in them. These are capacitive input panels, so naturally they can detect multiple finger presses at once. Recent Synaptics drivers have a lot of multi-touch gesture functionality in them. However, you will find most of it disabled on many notebooks – I think for marketing reasons (or maybe to avoid aggravating Apple too much ;) ). However, all multi-touch functionality is present on standard driver, and just artificially “hidden” using registry keys (which are even named like “HideTwoFingerScrolling”, how honest of them ;) ). So, to re-enable missing features just: Download this .reg file , save it somewhere – on your desktop for example. Do not choose “Open” in browser, choose “Save To…”! Click on it to open in Explorer ( important! open from Windows Explorer/Desktop only, not directly from your web browser, not from third-party file managers like Total Commander – to make sure it will use correct registry on 6

A candle-powered lava lamp

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Mathmos Fireflow – the most efficient cordless lava lamp (since it generates heat directly) :) http://www.mathmos.com/x15042.html