Emulate Mouse Wheel with Synaptics Touchpad

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Published on 2010-04-15T13:53:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 14:03 UTC
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Is it possible to make the Synaptics Touchpad driver emulate a mouse wheel when scrolling?

I can use the touch pad to scroll in Windows Explorer just fine but VMware does not support it. The mouse cursor changes to indicate that scrolling is active but the VMware guest will not respond to it.

Since VMware supports the scroll wheel I am looking for a workaround.

VMware Workstation 7.0.1
Host/Guest OS: Windows 7
Synaptics Driver 15.0.9.0

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