Re: Touchpad Driver for WinXP on VAIO PCG-F350?

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From: Willy Nilly (nilleigh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:10:48 GMT

A blessing upon thee and thy progeny to the umpteenth generation.

Your driver has substantially restored "tapping" to my touchpad.

It is still a little weird, though. Double-tapping seems required where it
wasn't in the past. And I don't find any GUI to set the double-click speed.

But--it is still better. Congenital finger-macro still has me tapping the
pad for a click.

This computer has a label on the dashboard stating that it and Windows are
"made for each other". A pity that the mouse is still considered such a
peripheral peripheral. Engelbart must be spinning in his grave.

Again: many, many thanks.

~William Nilleigh

"Jef Norton" <jefn_REMOVE_YOUR_SHORTS_@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:yDrld.8568$zx1.7529@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> "Willy Nilly" <nilleigh@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:n8qld.2862$iI2.91533@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> |I recently upgraded my Sony laptop from W98 to WinXP. Although the
> touchpad
> | works (?ALPS?), it is not possible to enable tapping--the mouse setup
> dialog
> | that should control this defaults instead to a PS/2 setup.
> |
> | Sony makes a touchpad driver available on its website, but it is only
> for
> | W2000; I can't get it to install on XP. (Perhaps the install package
> could
> | be modified?)
> |
> | Does anyone know where I can get a driver that will enable me to control
> the
> | touchpad, so that I can turn on tapping?
> |
> | Thanks!
> |
> |
>
> Hi Willy Nilly -
>
> The Alps Touchpad Driver listed on the Sony Support site won't work for
> Windows XP, regardless of whether or not you can get the installer to run.
> Alps reports that you require version 5.3 of the driver for Windows XP and
> the Sony Windows 2000 download contains version 5.0.
>
> I can, however, probably help you.
>
> I have placed the extracted Alps Glidepoint Driver version 5.3.510.9 from
> my
> VAIO V505EX, running Windows XP on my personal web space.
>
> Download the following file to your hard disk:
> http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jefn/alps5.3.510.9.zip
>
> I suggest you download the file directly to your C:\ root drive, so that
> these instructions will be simpler for me to type.
>
> Once you have the file, go into Windows Explorer (Windows Key + E) and
> extract the driver files. This is done simply by navigating to your C:\
> drive and then double-click on the alps5.3.510.9.zip file and then, in the
> explorer window, click on File then Extract All. Click on Next then Next
> then Finish. Close all three Explorer Windows you've opened up in this
> process.
>
> Go into Start | Control Panel (and, if using Category View, Performance
> and
> Maintenance). Then double-click on the System Icon. Click on the
> Hardware
> tab. Click on the Device Manager button. Expand the device tree by
> pressing the plus-sign next to Mice and Other Pointing Devices.
> Right-click
> on Alps Film Pointing-Device and click on Update Driver in the drop-down
> menu.
>
> Select the "No, not this time" radio button and click Next.
>
> Select the "Install from a list at a specific location (advanced)" radio
> button and click Next.
>
> Select the "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install." radio
> button and click Next.
>
> Click the "Have Disk" button. Browse to the C:\Alps5.3.510.9 folder you
> created when you extracted the .zip file from my download. Click the Open
> button. Click Next. The driver will install. Click Finish and reboot
> when
> instructed.
>
> Please reply to this message when you have downloaded the driver so that I
> can remove it from my personal web space.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Jef
>
>

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