Synaptics WDM Pointing Device Driver for Windows 98/ME
Installation Notes
Version 7.4.4
1. Installing the Synaptics Pointing Device Driver
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This driver requires Windows 98/ME.
NOTE REGARDING SAVING OF SETTINGS:
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Windows 98/ME does not save any of the user settings for users
belonging to the "Guests" user group. This includes special Pointing Device
settings as well as all other user settings. If you want your
settings to be saved, make sure your user account does not belong to
the "Guests" group using the User Manager program (you must be
Administrator to change user settings).
NOTE REGARDING MULTIPROCESSOR MACHINES:
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Though we believe it should work, this driver has not been tested on
any multiprocessor machines.
Installation procedure
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First, if you have a new Pointing Device, plug it in and reboot Windows 98/ME.
Windows 98/ME will then detect your new Pointing Device and
install a standard mouse driver to handle it. You cannot install the
Synaptics Pointing Device driver until this process is complete and your
Pointing Device is functioning as a normal pointing device.
Log on to your system as "Administrator", or as another user with
administrator privileges.
Run "Setup.exe". This program will automatically install the Synaptics
Pointing Device driver to handle all PS/2 and Serial pointing devices
attached to your computer.
You will need to restart Windows after the installation is complete.
If the driver has been installed correctly, after you have restarted
Windows you should see the Pointing Device Icon in your task bar next to the
clock. Also, a dialog box entitled "Information about your Synaptics Pointing Device"
will pop up. You can prevent this dialog box from coming up in the
future by checking the "Stop showing me this message" checkbox.
For help using your Pointing Device, choose "Tell me more..." from the
"Information about your Pointing Device" dialog box, or double-click on the
Pointing Device Icon in your task bar, and click on the "Help" button.
If you wish to change one or more of your pointing devices to using
a standard Microsoft or other third party driver, you should bring
up the Mouse control panel, and select the "Hardware" tab. From there,
select the pointing device you want to change and click "Properties".
Select the "Driver" tab and Click "Update Driver...". Follow the
instructions to install a new driver.
A few notes on using Setup.exe:
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- When using long path and filename expressions with switches, enclose the
expressions in double quotation marks. The enclosing double quotes tell the
operating system that spaces within the quotation marks are not to be treated
as command line delimiters.
- Do not leave a space between command line switches and options.
- When InstallShield Silent runs, a log file is created in the same folder as
the response file. The log file has the default name Setup.log if the -f2 switch
is not provided.
If you are running "Setup.exe" from a CD, you must specify the name and
a different path for the log file. The default path provided by InstallShield
is the directory containing "Setup.iss". If run from a CD, this would result
in an error, because CDs are read-only. For example, execute the following to run a
silent install and generate the log file "SynSetup.log" in the C:\Mydir folder:
setup.exe -s -f2"c:\Mydir\SynSetup.log"
To verify that a silent setup succeeded, look at the ResultCode value in the
[ResponseResult] section of the log file. ResultCode = 0 means the
installation was successful.
- If the -f1 switch is not used when running InstallShield Silent, Setup looks for the
response file Setup.iss in the same folder as Setup.exe. A log file is created in the
same folder.
- Setup.exe command line switches/options are not case sensitive.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.