I’ve recently purchased an MSI Wind mini-notebook to fulfill my need of being online whilst out of “the lair”. This is truly a portable piece of technology, and if you’re considering a mini-notebook I think it offers the best value for your money.
Anyway, this is not a review (quite enough of those out there), but rather a tip for those who are about to or already got one of those.
One of the important features of any notebook with a trackpad is the ability to scroll using trackpad itself, sliding the finger on the edges of the trackpad. I’ve noticed that I couldn’t do it on the Wind and started Googling for a solution. I’ve got pretty upset reading about the Wind’s trackpads not offering this functionality on several forums and respected sources.
However, there is such a functionality on the Wind. In order to scroll the page you have touch the trackpad with the tip of your finger slightly lower than the uppermost right corner or slightly higher than the lowermost right corner. Eureka!
I’ve tried to post an answer on those forums to let those poor chaps know that their life could be a lot easier. Nahaa! Couldn’t do it without registering.. WTF?! I’m trying to do a good deed here, and within reason trying not spend too much time doing it, hell no I will not spend me precious time registering! Why couldn’t there be a way to post without that hassle?
That’s the reason for this post. Hope I did some good for someone out there.
-Alex
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I just bought a Wind. Tested it out for DJing and the only gripe I had was the lack of trackpad scrolling. Until you came along. Thanks so much!!!!!
Oh, thank you for this! I was wondering why the trackpad wouldn’t scroll. It’s still not as good as a “rub up and down” vertical scroll, but I’ll take it!
You bet.
And you’re right, the rub-up-and-down is better.
But, trackpads suck all the same, I just plug in a mouse.
you know what’s even more annoying about this problem is that apple has patented the name of their trackpad as “Scrolling TrackPad is the name for one of Apple Inc.’s patent-pending trackpads”
it’s inane trying to find a hit that isn’t just demoing the apple trackpad. I love apple trackpads. I’m a huge fan of two finger scrolling but I’m trying to find a video with just regular trackpad scrolling to show my sister (who is in another province) what to do. I wasn’t even looking for anything wind specific though coincidentally that’s what she has.
You were the first non-Apple hit i found on my search. I’m actually a member of their forums because I had to find a way to turn off touch-tap but for this post you have my thanks.
Well I have the MSI Wind U210 and scrolling does not work no matter how I try.
I wanna add something here. It’s not wind problem at all to not having “rub up and down” feature in its touchpad.
The problem is the driver of the touchpad in windows does not support or provide this ability. I have a mac and i tried to install Snow Leopard on Msi Wind U123x, And voilaaaa !!! “rub up and down” is there waiting for me on wind.
So lets ask for some matured drivers for windows to support this !