ELAN touchpad scrolling is horrible on Opera
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A Former User last edited by
Until a few months ago, I owned a Samsung netbook that was equipped with an Elan touchpad.
On this computer with Windows 7 I could start the pre-installed software Elan Smart-Pad via an icon in the Windows Control Panel, which allowed a very fine adjustment of the touchpad's settings to my own needs.
The following screenshot shows e.g. the options (German system) for scrolling: Vertical, horizontal and automatic scrolling can be switched on or off and the scrolling speed can be set:
With the help of this software I could operate Opera very comfortably.Is there no Elan software pre-installed on your laptop?
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hion last edited by@yanta
Thanks for the response!!Oh ya it does seem like the scrolling is very bad for ELAN drivers, one of my friends had a synapse driver and it worked flawlessly.
When I first got the laptop I've looked everywhere to see if there was a ELAN software that came with my laptop (L340-gaming) but I could not find any!
People are saying that there should be one right next to the "Hardware" tab, but I don't see one. Furthermore, searching "ELAN", "smart-pad", and "touchpad" in the windows search does not bring up any type of elan software.
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A Former User last edited by
@hion On Windows 7 (32-bit) the software was pre-installed in c:\Program Files\Elantech
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A Former User last edited by
This is a screenshot of the Control Panel of Windows 10 (German). On Windows 7 the icon for the Elan software was located here:
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hion last edited by
@yanta
hmmm, ya I cant seem to find it.
I don't even have the folder "Elantech" in my directory "c:\Program File"
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A Former User last edited by
@hion Yes. With reference to your screenshot above, it should look like this if the Elan software were installed:
Is the "L340" the Lenovo Ideapad L340? -
hion last edited by
@yanta
No its the "IdeaPad L340 Gaming Laptop"
Lenovo is weird with naming, so there is a difference between the "IdeaPad L340" and "IdeaPad L340 Gaming Laptop"Looks like the image below:
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A Former User last edited by
@hion Thanks. Nice device btw.
According to Lenovo's support website your touchpad drivers seem to be up-to-date.
I can't imagine a gaming laptop being shipped without the ability to configure one of the central controls such as the touchpad.
I'll see if I can find something about it, but now I have to log out.
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hion last edited by
@yanta
Alrighty.. Thank you so much for your assistance and help!!
(I may contact Lenovo in the future)
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@hion said in ELAN touchpad scrolling is horrible on Opera:
Oh ya it does seem like the scrolling is very bad for ELAN drivers, one of my friends had a synapse driver and it worked flawlessly.
When I first got the laptop I've looked everywhere to see if there was a ELAN software that came with my laptop (L340-gaming) but I could not find any!
People are saying that there should be one right next to the "Hardware" tab, but I don't see one. Furthermore, searching "ELAN", "smart-pad", and "touchpad" in the windows search does not bring up any type of elan software.I'm thinking about whether the touchpad drivers might not have been installed correctly. Does your Device Manager under "Mice and other pointing devices" show an entry for Elan or Synaptics, and if yes, maybe with a yellow exclamation mark?
On the Lenovo IdeaPad L340 Gaming Laptop support page, you can perform various online scans to detect and troubleshoot hardware and configuration issues.
And if you search the Lenovo forum for e.g.
L340 touchpad, you'll find some threads from customers who can't find their touchpad settings either.I would probably follow the procedure described in the second post in this thread (*) to try to solve the issue of missing touchpad settings.
If the settings are available, it may also be possible to improve the response behaviour of Opera.
(*) This thread is not specifically for the gaming model, so please make sure to use correct URLs for downloads. However, the procedure for both models is certainly identical.
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hion last edited by hion
@yanta
Ya there seems to be an ELAN device in the Device Manger.
I am a bit busy right now, but I will try to do all the suggested task you stated above in the future, thanks! -
A Former User last edited by
Hello, can you solve this problem?
i have the same issues on the same device, thanks! -
