This will allow you to press both track pad buttons simultaneously to produce a middle click. Great for opening a new tab in your browser!
- Run the registry editor (regedit)
- Go to key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Synaptics\SynTP\Defaults\
- Here create a new key as a
DWORD and name it as 'HasBothButtonFeature' without the quotes and set the value to 1.
- Log off and Log on again
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You can also enable 2 finger tap or 3 finger tap to middle or right click
This is a per-user registry setting
Depending on your touchpad model, replace
TouchPadPS2 with
TouchPadSMB2c. You can check Device Manager to figure out which one you need; it will be listed under
Mice and other pointing devices.
- Run the registry editor (regedit)
- Go to key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTP\TouchPadPS2\
- Edit the
2FingerTapAction or 3FingerTapAction
- Change the value to "2" for right click
- Change the value to "4" for middle click
- Log off and Log on again
If you use the 3 finger tap action, you may need to do the following or the mouse pointer will freeze when you 3 finger tap. It seems to affect the latest versions of the Synaptics driver.
- Run the registry editor (regedit)
- Go to key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTP\TouchPadPS2\
- Edit 3FingerTapPluginID and clear the SynTP string
- Change the value of 3FingerTapPluginActionID to "0"