Enabling Middle Click in Synaptics Touchpad Drivers
Recently I upgraded my currently installed Synaptics touchpad driver to version 15.x, and I found that I cannot emulate the middle-click effect by pressing both right and left click buttons. I found no options in the settings to enable that functionality. Finally after searching the web I found a workaround here [+]:
- Run the registry editor (regedit)
- Go to key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Synaptics\SynTP\Defaults\ - Here create a new key as a
DWORDand name it as'HasBothButtonFeature'without the quotes and set the value to 1. - Log off and Log on again
It worked fine for me.
Sina Iravanian
Thank you so much for this! Most of the Synaptics drivers past v8 have removed this functionality, and I can’t imagine why. To find out that it is still possible with new drivers, but is not part of the driver GUI, only makes me more annoyed with them. Oh well =/ …
Thanks again!!
Thank you very much as well!
Thank you !!!
Worked perfectly! Thanks for the tip!
Worked perfectly well.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! It becomes so incredibly annoying having to right click and then find “Open in New Tab” on my tiny netbook screen. This makes everything incredibly more convenient =D
Thanks so much, this worked for me!
Worked perfeclty! Thank you so much! I cannot believe they removed this feature.
Thanks!
You are f*cking awesome, worked forme.
Using Synaptics Touchpad V7.5 on HP G7.
Thanks so much for passing this along! Works like a charm.
I cannot thank you enough. I’m always weary about editing my registry, but i saw it working for everyone else and decided to give it a shot. I’m beyond happy i did. You rock!
Thankyou so much!
fantastic! Works great with the Windows 8 preview too!
Works for me (Windows 7 Home Premium x64 on a Dell Studio). Thanks! This is the one feature present in the dell driver that is absent in the official driver and now I have it working
Thanks, man! It was drivin’ me crazy here… Now it’s working perfectly!! Congrats!
Awesome! Thank you I looked all over for this
Perfect Tks
Thank you!!! Works like a charm.
another thank you from me
I was able to configure a middle-click action on the TouchPad v7.2 (Driver 14.0.19.0) of my Acer 5251.
Control Panel + Mouse + Device Settings + Settings + Tapping + Enable Tapping + Tap Zones + Enable Tap Zones + Top Right Action (or any other of your choosing) + Middle Click (3rd from the top). NOTE: if enabling/using Tap Zones is new to you, I’d suggest you assign No Zone to all other areas (4 others).
You are a LEGEND! Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you so fuckin much.
Thank YOu
I can’t believe it took a registry modification just to enable this standard functionality. How else am I supposed to middle click without a mouse? Thanks a ton!