Using the driver from their website enables a few features not found in the OEM driver, such as Horizontal and Chiral scrolling. After installation of their driver package, I noticed an odd behavior. A synaptics demo video would run at random intervals. I couldn't figure out what triggered it.
After some digging, I found that there were additional device properties on top of those enumerated in Control Panel > Mouse
How to kill the Batman random video:
- Navigate to Control Panel > Mouse
- Under your mouse properties, click on the last tab "Device Settings".
- Click "Settings" to pull up the "Synaptics Properties" window.
- Select "Tapping" and you will see a Gear symbol and a Question Mark to the right side.
- The Gear allows you to go into "Tapping Settings"
- If you have Tapping unchecked, you cannot access these settings. For some odd reason these settings will still be in effect. Note: This was what was keeping me from finding how to disable the random video.
- Click into this and you can either uncheck "Enable tapping zones" or change the very last drop down box (with Top Right Action) to "No Zone".
- Proceed to back out, uncheck "Tapping" again if you so desire, and compute annoyance free.
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