Disable scrolling-icon

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How can I disable this scrolling icon?

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Windows 7, Synaptics TouchPad

Zulakis

Posted 13 years ago

Reputation: 1 446

Hi there. It's almost 2020 and Synaptics didn't fix this bug. – Simón – 6 years ago

1let me guess, are you on dell ? – Ankit – 13 years ago

yes, i am using a dell laptop. – Zulakis – 13 years ago

Answers

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According to this forum topic there should be a registry key you can change:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh]
"UseScrollCursor"=dword:00000000

Just add this to registry. Either copy-paste the above text into Notepad, save it as a .reg file and run it, or manually add it using RegEdit (on my system, this value didn't exist, so I had to create it manually). Afterwards, restart SynTPEnh.exe and SynTPHelper.exe (use TaskManager to kill them, then restart them from the Synaptics installation folder, which is usualy C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP). Or simply restart your system.

David

Posted 13 years ago

Reputation: 262

+1 - Also note that on Windows 7 the .reg file will have to start with Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00, see this answer for reference.

– Ian Campbell – 7 years ago

This Registry hack works also on Windows 10. – Simón – 6 years ago

I somehow managed to disable this in my old windows installation without modifying any icon files. There must be a way. – Zulakis – 13 years ago

And yes, I only want to remove the icon. – Zulakis – 13 years ago

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