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Synaptics TouchPad Driver Release Notes
Version 5.0.80
July 16, 2000
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Overview
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This document describes changes to the Synaptics TouchPad Driver for
Windows 95 and Windows NT. Only the major releases have been documented.
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A08 - Version 5.0.80 (Release Date 06/02/2000 ) (WinNT/Win95/98/Windows 2000)
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Fixed problem under certain situations, when system would shut down, the system
would report a General Protection message. This would be exhibited with a black
screen with white text after the system has gone through the shutdown process on
Dual Pointing Systems with the Synaptics Touchpad and Styck. (Windows 9x/Me)
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A07 - Version 5.0.77 (Release Date 06/02/2000 ) (WinNT/Win95/98/Windows 2000)
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Fixed some Cosmetic issues.
Added support for Windows 2000
Improved the Install Process
Added support for TouchPads and TouchStyks (Synaptics Only)
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A06 - Version 5.0.42 (Release Date 08/25/1999 ) (WinNT/Win95/98)
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A06 - Improved the PS/2 WheelMouse support.
Corrected help references for MoodPad and PressureGraph.
NT Domain settings bug fixed. When using Cached Domain Settings,
Personalized settings could become lost and revert back to default
settings.
Improved system performance under heavy load conditions (i.e.,
multiple DOS operations taking place as a background operation).
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A05 - Version 5.0.28 (Release Date 22Feb99) (WinNT/Win95/98)
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A05 - Reved Driver from A04 to A05.
Changed system text info in version.txt.
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A04 - Version 5.0.28 (Release Date 22Feb99) (WinNT/Win95/98)
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Bug Fixes
Resolved some International cosmetic issues:
- Fix the font on the Setup program's title in Thai.
- Fix various dialog strings/hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts)
are not clipped in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese,
and Korean.
Windows NT - Add ability of SynTPNab to stay resident to avoid a "problem
code" in the registry. Controlled by registry value "StayResident".
This would incorrectly report that the mouse driver had failed in
the registry of Windows NT 4.0.
Repaired an issue with delayed current user settings when attempting to
log into a unavailable NT Domain server as a user with a roaming
profile.
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A03 - Version 5.0.23 (Release Date 07Jan99) (WinNT/Win95/98)
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New Features
Multiple (2) floppy installation support.
Separate configurability for corner zone drop-downs in the control panel.
Disable the lower ones for a certain web product.
Add support for additional types of TouchPads.
Uninstallation support for Windows 95/98/NT4.
Bug Fixes
Fix scrolling in Adobe Acrobat plugin windows.
Fix tray icon animation when TouchPads are hot unplugged with a finger on
the pad.
Fix a USB WheelMouse scrolling problem.
Enable control of scrolling speed even if scrolling is turned on for
pads that have a scrolling rocker switch.
Fix drag-and-drop behavior in the Run Application dialog boxes.
Tightened the validity check on WheelMouse packets to match the MS
driver. This should prevent spurious packets from reaching the OS.
NT: The SynI8042 driver is only installed on multi-processor machines,
to avoid keyboard driver conflict problems (e.g. hangs after install).
Workaround for a bug in Excel that causes it to crash when horizontal
scrolling is done with panes frozen.
Fixed greyed out left- and right-handed buttons after change back to the
standard Microsoft driver.
Intellimice that somehow get reset without the driver's cooperation or
knowledge are now redetected and subsequently work. This fixes the
intermittant problem with Intellimice after long usage that was
reported.
The NT driver's keyboard filter object now attaches over all keyboard
ports (though only 0 is used)to fix a bug that occurs if SMS is
installed (it creates a second keyboard port device, which must
have the same number of layers as the first one or KBDCLASS will
blue screen (documented Microsoft bug).
Some version of SP3 NT seems to be disabling the i8042prt driver
when our driver is installed. This may be related to SMS.
Fix scrolling in Emacs.
Remove detection of WheelMice on Phoenix H8 keyboard controllers
since we don't support this.
- Make the enhancements app system tray icon installation a bit more robust.
- Add rocker switch action combo boxes for double-byte language dialog boxes.
- Removed sensitive portions of rcs header from shipping inf files.
- Update to half/new DDK for NT5.0 to fix a bug introduced by MS changing
the mini-port interface.
- Fix Win98 wheel mouse message support (fixes IE4.0 bug)
- Rebase SynTPAPI.dll and SynTPFcs.dll to avoid conflict with DVD driver.
- Fixed bug in edge finder while dragging.
- Minor improvements to INF files and the CoInstaller.
- Added support for Synaptics T1004 Combo TouchPads.
- Added stroke suppression to PalmCheck, in addition to the tap suppression
that was already in place.
- Grayed out the "left hand/ right hand" button swapping control on the
standard Microsoft "Buttons" page in the Mouse Properties dialog.
- Added code to prevent users from turning off all left button actions.
For example, you cannot disable taps unless one physical button is
mapped to the left button action. And you cannot map all physical
buttons to non-left button actions unless taps are enabled.
- Added drag and drop support to the configuration dialog for the
"Run any program" Plug-In. Updated the "Run a program..." Plug-In to set
the current working directory to the location of the program to be run.
- Tied the rocker switch scrolling speed to the virtual scrolling speed
slider.
- Added support for the MultiKey 3434 H8 keyboard controller.
- Added the "TipAltFile" registry setting which specifies an alternate file
to open when "Tell me more..." is selected from the tip dialog.
- Added the PlugInScrollDelay registry setting which specifies the number
of milliseconds a rocker switch must be held down before the scroll action
begins to autorepeat.
- Fixed a bug in the Windows 95 installation routine that was temporarily
disabling serial mice that happened to be present during the installation.
- Wheel mice were being reported as "Unknown Pointing Device" in the control
panel device selection combo box. They are now reported as "Wheel Mouse".
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the advanced PS/2 port setting on the
"More Features" page from being changed using an external mouse.
- The dialog box that says "Your computer is equipped with a Synaptics
TouchPad" used to appear even if a TouchPad was not present.
This behavior has been corrected.
- The "Tell me more..." button on the splash screen used to bring up the
Table of Contents/Index dialog for the Help file. It now brings up the
"Overview" page with introductory information about the TouchPad.
- Provided a workaround for a conflict with REALMagic DVD software.
- Fixed a bug in the Windows NT driver that was causing extraneous scrolling
action in some wheelmouse-aware applications.
- Fixed a bug in the NT 4.0 driver that could have caused problems on
multiprocessor machines.
- Fixed a bug in the scrolling tutorial which affected low-speed scrolling.
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Version 5.0.10 (Release Date 02Apr98) (Win95, WinNT) - A02 / Initial Release
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- Improved the Japanese translations in the Help file and dialogs.
- Added support for "up" and "down" buttons if present.
- Added support for wheel mice.
- Fixed a problem that was sometimes causing the installation program to
crash when it was 90% complete.
- Fixed a bug in the splash screen dialog that was preventing it from
responding to keyboard input.
Download Driver Pack
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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.
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