Synaptics touchpad scroll doesn't work on many applications

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Published on 2010-12-13T16:10:17Z Indexed on 2012/03/29 11:33 UTC
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The Synaptics touchpad in my new laptop doesn't scroll at all in a number of applications, including Steam and Zune.

I've narrowed the problem down to Synaptics not sending mouse wheel messages, but rather manipulating scroll bars.

I'm only looking into one-finger side-of-touchpad scrolling, not two-finger scrolling.

Is there a way to make it send wheel messages so that it is compatible with all applications?

Configuration:

Windows 7 64-bit
Dell XPS 14
Latest Synaptics driver (have tried both from Synaptics and Dell)

My Synaptics options window looks like this and I've tried moving all the options to no avail:

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