FIXED! Middle Click Functionality Disabled on Windows 10 upgrade . . . FIXED!!!!!!!

On upgrading my ThinkPad Edge E545 to windows 10, I lost the ability to middle click. ....The new UltraNav had got rid of trackpoint options box that allowed me to select "neither" and only allowed me to change the senstivity of the scrolling.....Diabling trackpoint meant that I lost the ability to use the buttons at all!! Cray Cray! I was losing it trying to fix it....reinstalling, rebooting, trying old drivers....nothing worked.....then finally I found this post about the same problem in windows 8... In my case, with windows 10 I just searched for 'trackpointmode" in regedit......that ended up being here HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1557542073-2641846280-496700362-1003\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\UltraNavPS2Then...
Change "TrackPointMode" to dword:00002214 from the previous value of 00001214
Thank you jaymemaurice you da real MVP

duganmatt,
Thanks so much for taking the time to post about this!
Hopefully this will help others and they will add on comments here to confirm it worked for them too!
Best regards,
Mark

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<rant> This is a big deal, but not really being taken seriously. Apple hasn't even bothered to work it out in their own OS yet. Thanks @vladalexa [MagicPrefs], a developer from Romania, for the final decision on the 70$ purchase )@steve(. Otherwise, the native software cannibalizes too much of the hardware's built-in functionality to justify the investment. Virtual machines would solve this issue, but I just don't have the free hardware resources to accommodate the kind of software I run. </rant>
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