[FIX] Yoga 13 Windows 8.1 Touchpad and Pixelated Windows.
Hello everybody! This would be my first post in this forum.
I thought that I had to share this since I wasn't able to find a fix for the Touchpad. And since I was also able to solve the pixelated windows issue, I thought I might want to share it.
[ISSUES]
1. Touchpad multi gestures not working and slow move speed.
The first thing that I realised after booting up my Yoga after the Windows 8.1 update was that the cursor was moving rather slow. I tried meddling with the pointer speed in the mouse options under Control Panel and it didn't seem to work.
Started Googling and was figured that by installing the Synaptics Drivers, it would solve the problem. Unfortunately, nothing changed. Since I know that it is driver related, I got to work and remembered some simple steps to update hardware drivers. Let's get started!
Steps:
1. Go to Control Panel.
2. Go to Device Manager. You should see a long list of hardware that your system is supporting.
3. Find "Mice and other pointing devices". Click the arrow to expand the drop down list.
4. You should see "PS/2 Mouse" or something like that. (I have already updated it and it no longer displays that name)
5. Right click the "PS/2 Mouse" and click "Update Driver Software".
Make sure you are connected to the internet and let it install the drivers. The cursor speed and touchpad multi gestures will go back to normal!!
2. Pixelated Windows.
This would be the second thing that I noticed when I opened my Chrome browser. The words were very pixelated. Initially, I suspected the screen resolution, but it wasn't the case. However, I was close. After some Googling, it had to do with the Display.
Steps:
1. Right click on your Desktop.
2. Click "Screen Resolution". You should see the options to Change your display.
3. There should be 3 options that are highlighted in BLUE. Select "Make text and other items larger or smaller".
4. Under "Change the size of all items", select "Smaller - 100%".
5. Check "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays"
6. Apply
And that should solve both issues. So far, I have only encountered these two issues. If I were to find out more, I would certainly add them to this thread.
Cheers everyone!
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Hi uzentan,
thanks for posting this up. This is a great guide in which we will be happy to assist in publishing as a Knowledge base artile for customer to work through their issue.
Thanks for posting.
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