{"id":3036,"date":"2015-05-29T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2015-05-29T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:10:36","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last piece<\/a> in the series talked about Synaptics software – a program to manage the touchpad on some of the popular laptops (e.g. from Toshiba).<\/p>\n

Turns out Synaptics is not the only company providing a software managing the touchpad extensions and this short post introduces yet another one – from Alps company. The relationship between these two aforementioned companies seems to be actually quite close; I have not investigated it very thoroughly, but if you google these two, you will find a lot of overlaps; I personally don’t care too much – at the end of the day they both use different Registry entries, and this is all that matters ;).<\/p>\n

So, anyways, Alps touchpads can be found on many popular laptops e.g. from Dell and Toshiba. Here, I will talk about the Dell version.<\/p>\n

Looking at available options we can easily find the familiar ‘Run’ command that can be associated with buttons’ activities:<\/p>\n

\"Dell\"<\/a>A simple test (Run Notepad when we click Left button on the touchpad) allows us to quickly discover the location in the Registry where the settings are stored:<\/p>\n

\"Alps\"<\/a>The key is located under HKCU:<\/p>\n