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What is the Silver button on the mouse pad for my 5670

post #1 of 11
5/13/06 at 10:59pm
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I am curious why there is a 4 way silver button on the mouse pad. The mouse properties in the control panel, don't say anything about it.

thank you
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post #2 of 11
5/13/06 at 11:01pm
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ok, i figured it out, i feel like i just asked a stupid question.


Who would have though that I would not have tried to use it in IE
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post #3 of 11
5/14/06 at 3:08am
Yeah, it doesn't work in Firefox for me. When i reinstalled Windows, i didn't even bother reinstalling the touchpad drivers for it's functionability, as it's worthless for me since i don't use IE.
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post #4 of 11
5/17/06 at 1:38am
What is it supposed to do? I think I disabled the auto-starting "helper" exe before I found out because it just beeped at me in IE.

It'd be useless for me if it didn't work in Firefox, but I'm curious!
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post #5 of 11
5/17/06 at 2:08am
it will work with firefox once you reinstall the drivers from the main website...
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post #6 of 11
5/17/06 at 3:00am
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Originally Posted by bighusker
What is it supposed to do? I think I disabled the auto-starting "helper" exe before I found out because it just beeped at me in IE.

It'd be useless for me if it didn't work in Firefox, but I'm curious!

Its a multidirectional scroller, web pages, word docs, etc....

Sweet, i dont use it either cuz i always use Firefox. I will try reinstalling the drivers again now firefox is on the machine.
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post #7 of 11
5/18/06 at 8:08pm
that thing is useless, wtf do they even put a scroll button on your touchpad buttons when your touchpad ALREADY has the sideways and up and down scroll feature built in. thats like having 2 left mouse buttons and 2 right mouse buttons
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post #8 of 11
5/18/06 at 8:24pm
You guys seriously lack creativity. I use mine, in firefox, with a custom profile to go forwards and backwards regarding webpages.

Left square goes back a page, right square is forward, down scrolls down, up scrolls up. Now i can be ultra lazy and never move my hand from the touchpad
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post #9 of 11
5/18/06 at 9:04pm
I tried it initially and couldn't get it to work (drivers were from say 3/25). So you guys are saying the latest drivers now work in FF?

Also i use a Logitech MX510 as my pimary mouse, and as such i have the drivers installed for it (so use the added buttons at my disposal). Can both be installed together, because this was the issue i had before. Just wondering if some newer drivers fixed this?
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post #10 of 11
6/5/06 at 11:28pm
For those of you wondering about this, you need to download the latest drives directly from *synaptics* to make firefox work, as Acer is lazy and the ones they have posted are very out of date:


http://www.synaptics.com/support/drive.cfm
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post #11 of 11
6/6/06 at 12:38pm
Yeah use the drivers from Synaptics' website, and the scroll buttons will work. I prefer to use that to scroll than constantly sliding my finger down the right side of the touchpad. And I use the left and right scroll buttons for Forward and Back.
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