How To: Keep TrackPoint Working Properly

[bmwman91]

As many of you have probably found, installing the latest Ultranav/Synaptics drivers (or any from the last year really) cause the middle button for the TrackPoint to stop working properly. We all love our middle-mouse scrolling and new-tab / close-tab functionality, which the newer drivers seem to remove.

So I spent some time messing around with older Ultranav drivers due to some issues that I was having, and figured that I would share the version that I found that seems to work well, particularly with Win8. The "easy" way to keep the middle TrackPoint button working is to just uninstall all mouse drivers and use the default Windows generic PS/2 driver. However, I found that I was getting frequent BSoB errors in Win8 due to some sort of hardware/IRQ issue with the ancient default driver. Using the newest drivers stops the BSoD issue, but it kills the middle mouse functionality.

ANYWAY, the Lenovo driver version that I am using now, which seems to not have BSoD issues AND preserve the middle mouse functionality is:
6HGY29WW - Ultranav Driver version 15.0.18.0
Readme: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... gy29ww.txt
Download: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... gy29ww.exe

If I encounter another BSoD I will post about it and try some newer drivers. So far so good, but I need to give it a few days since it was sort of random, but mainly when middle-mouse scrolling (in a browser or using CAD) and it seemed to also be linked to playing YouTube videos. Worst case, it is due to the nvidia GPU having issues, but TuuS hooked me up with a good one so I doubt that it is that.

If you install these drivers, to get the middle button to do its thing you have to go to the Control Panel, open up the Mouse dialog, go to the Ultranav tab, Trackpoint settings button, and set the "Choose Scrolling or Magnifying Glass Function" to Neither. Hit OK and that's that!