Previously, users who want to enable multitouch and gesture support on a Synaptics TouchPad have to download and install a modded and hacked for multitouch support Synatics TouchPad driver (which actually supports more gestures such as ChiralMotion and Momentum).
The OEM simply doesn’t provide the required updated driver to unlock and turn on multitouch support and various finger gestures. Luckily the locking and disabling of multitouch gesture feature is done on the software driver for the TouchPad, especially Synaptics TouchPad. Despite most new laptop, netbook or notebook computers on sale in the market now prominently feature the multi-touch finger gesture navigation on the TouchPad (also known as TrackPad), most older and earlier version of TouchPad on laptop, nettop, netbook or notebook that been released prior to Windows 7 does not have multitouch gesture support enabled, even though the TouchPad hardware itself may support multi-touch with two or even three finger scrolling and gesture.Įven worse, for marketing reason or patent issue (mainly in US), some PC manufacturers and vendors decide to turn off and disable multitouch function on the TouchPad and TrackPad.
