Windows 10: How to use Middle Mouse button tap on a Laptop?

When I click on my middle mouse button on an internet page, a "power scroll" icon comes up. I can drag my mouse up or down and it will follow, scrolling up or down the page without me having to manually scroll the middle mouse button.

I have a Predator Helios 300 with Windows 10 and don't always have a Mouse with me.

I've googled and it shows to go to Settings > Device > Taps > Middle Mouse button.

Either it doesn't work or I'm not doing it right?

When I setup the "tap" for middle mouse and use my laptop mouse pad, then I tap the area, nothing happens. I also tried tapping and holding, still nothing.

What am I supposed to do to get the "power scrolling" icon to appear if I have my mouse disconnected?

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X-windows middle-mouse button using touchpad on Windows 10

Cygwin is the only unix environment of which I know that works on top of Windows. I am getting frequent reminders to move from Windows 7 to Windows 10. It doesn't make sense to migrate my 2011 laptop with stuck keys to Windows 10, so I've been investigating current day laptops. I haven't bought one yet, but have messed around with display models at stores.

In Windows 10, one can specify that a 3-finger tap as representing the tap of the middle mouse button. Unfortunately, it is only a tap, and not a click-and-hold. X-windows requires the emulation of all possible uses of the middle button: Tap, click-and-hold, either of those two in conjunction with Shift and/or Control, and either one of the preceding modes in conjuction with a drag. For example, xterm customization menus require some of these.

In Windows 7, I achieve this by mapping the left physical button to the desired middle button. I don't need the physical left button to behave as a left button because left button functionality can be emulated with touch pad taps and drags by enabling the following Synaptics's switches:

• Tap again and hold to drag
  
• Locking Drags
  

Other limitations:

• I avoid carrying extra accessories like a mouse because without a doubt, I will not have it when I need it
  
• Many laptops don't have explicit buttons, but allow lower left/right corners to be clicked. This prevents the emulation of middle button by clicking both left and right, which isn't a good option anyway because (I'm guessing that) it also doesn't allow for simultaneous drag.
  

Questions

• How have other Cygwin users obtained middle mouse button functionality in Windows 10?
  
• Is Synaptics compatible with Windows 10
  
• Will it accomplish what I describe above with Windows 7?
  

 

stop middle mouse button from opening cortana/search


Is there a way to stop the middle mouse button (i.e. click of the scroll wheel) from opening Cortana/search?

Things I've tried:

1. Searched Google. No useful results. The closest I found was that Windows 10 may be confusing the click of the middle mouse button as the 3-finger tap on the touchpad - which opens Cortana/search by the default. But I don't have a touch pad. I have the Toshiba PX30T (Toshiba Qosmio PX30t 23 inch Touchscreen All-in-One PC - Black/Silver (Intel Core i3 3120M 2.5GHz Processor, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, DVDSM DL, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8 64-Bit): Amazon.co.uk: Computers Accessories).

2. Tried re-configuring the middle mouse button in (a) Windows 10 Settings > Devices > Mouse & touchpad, (b) Control Panel > Mouse, and (c) my desktop's manufacturer's System Settings utility application (upgraded just now from their website). Interestingly, none of those three configuration tools had any control setting for the middle mouse button.

It is obvious that Windows 10 doesn't "fully" support the wireless mouse that comes with my PC.

My question then is...

Is there a way to "unbind" the middle mouse button from opening Cortana/search? For example, via the Registry Editor - maybe?

Thanks for any replies!

 

Touchpad tap configured as "mouse back button" not working in Explorer

I have a ThinkPad T480 laptop, using a Synaptics touchpad. I use the built-in Windows 10 touchpad settings to configure the tap functionality.

I configured the touchpad to function as a "mouse back button" when I tap it with three fingers. It works fine in Firefox but it does not work at all in Windows Explorer (i.e., browsing files on my computer.)

Touch pad scrolling works fine, even in Windows Explorer.

Interestingly, I can get it to work as long as Explorer isn't focused. So, for example, if I click an empty part of the taskbar and then put the cursor over an Explorer window - without clicking it - then I do a three-finger tap, Explorer successfully goes back.

One other interesting observation: if I set three-finger tap to something else (say, Action Center), it does work in Explorer. This suggests that the problem is not Explorer failing to recognize any taps - just SPECIFICALLY back-button tap functionality.

Also, I tried setting two- and four-finger taps as mouse back button functionality but it doesn't work for those either, meaning the problem is not specific to three-finger taps.

Any ideas?