Trackpoint scrolling sucks on Windows

[mc.schroeder]

As I see it, you've only got the option to EITHER have a working middle mouse button, OR be able to scroll using the trackpoint (and not even that very well), am I correct?

I've looked everywhere, but I can't seem to find any setting/driver/hack/whatever that allows scrolling to work as one would expect it to: while holding down the middle mouse button, you scroll by simultaneously using the trackpoint (and I mean really scroll, not that annoying white thingy that you have to drag down and that doesn't ever stop when you want it to...). At any other time, you can middle-click normally.

In Ubuntu this works right out of the box. Why not in Vista? Does anybody know a way to fix this, or am I completely out of luck?

(Alternatively, if anybody knows a way to get any kind of decent battery life out of Ubuntu or any other linux distro (I'm already using the thinkwiki/powertop suggestions), or know a way to fix the hot-as-hell right palmrest under linux, that'd be great too.)

[ryengineer]

If you set that so-called "white thingy" or pointer in other words from "Standard" to "Smooth" then it will do wonders for you.

[mc.schroeder]

By "white thingy" I meant that thing that the smooth option gives you, i.e. a completely ineffective way of scrolling (compared to what, say, Ubuntu does). And not even that one works outside a few handful of apps.

Is there no way to have normal scrolling AND be able to use the middle mouse button?

[pibach]

I am using kernel 2.6.24 and unload unneeded modules, USB in particular. Ubuntu`s power consumption then is better than Vista`s.