It’s no secret that my weapons of choice are Macs, but since my workplace is a Windows-only enterprise (with a few exceptions) I’m every year furnished with a (former IBM) Lenovo ThinkPad. These are pretty useful little machines, my only complain with them being that every new iteration seems to be done cheaper than the ones before and the quality of the materials degrade accordingly :-(
Right now I’m writing this post on my brand new Lenovo X200, running Windows 7 RTM 64-bits. So far, so good.
Anyway, being the Mac guy that I am, I ran every Apple-developed app for windows in existence under my Windows machines. Since I began doing this, I noticed that the scrolling features of the Lenovo TrackPoint wouldn’t work with Safari and iTunes. No biggie, but once you have developed “muscle memory” it’s hard to cope with.
Looking around on the web, I found a somewhat simple fix for this. You just have to edit this file (make sure to backup it first, in case something goes wrong):
C:\Program Files\Lenovo\TrackPoint\tp4table.dat
Use any text editor to open it and paste this snippet of text just before the [AutoScrollTable] section:
;iTunes/Safari Scroll Fix
*,*,itunes.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
*,*,Safari.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
Once you have done that, save the file and reboot your machine. Now the scrolling feature will be working as usual both in Safari and iTunes.
