This method has been found to be most effective on touchpads that already have scrolling lines (dotted or un-dotted lines usually located on the right side and, in some cases, bottom of touchpads) embossed on them. Provided that the touchpad on your laptop supports touchpad scrolling and that the option is enabled in the touchpad’s settings/preferences, the following are some of the most common ways that can be used to scroll on a touchpad: Method 1: Single finger scrolling However, the question still stands – how do you scroll with a touchpad? Fortunately, it is entirely possible to scroll using just your touchpad and nothing else on almost all the different touchpad brands that exist. Alternatively, you can click on the arrow keys on a vertical or horizontal scroll bar within a program or application to scroll, and you can also click on a vertical or horizontal scroll bar to select it and move your mouse pointer (with the click still held) to drag the scroll bar and scroll in the desired direction. How are you supposed to scroll using an input device that doesn’t have a scroll wheel? Well, you could always use the arrow keys on your laptop’s keyboard to scroll. What many have trouble with when using a touchpad, however, is scrolling. A touchpad isn’t some other worldly technology – you move your finger on the touchpad to move the pointer on your screen accordingly, and you use the hardware right-click and left-click buttons to perform clicks (or, you can simply tap on most touchpads to perform a click). Of course, laptop users can attach an external mouse and use it as an input device for their pointer, but the default mouse pointer input device for all laptop users is a touchpad. Among the many differences between desktop computers and laptops exists the fact that, by default, laptop users use a touchpad instead of a mouse to move the pointer they see on their screens. Desktop computers and laptops are worlds apart in terms of hardware configuration.
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