Fixing Trackpoint Scroll for ITunes, Picasa, Safari, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Writer

The trackpoint middle scrolling button doesn't work for some of the newer applications such as ITunes, the newest versions of Picasa, Windows Live Mail, Safari, and Windows Live Writer.
Below is a fix applicable to all Windows OS's. The location of the edited file may vary so look in the Device Manager under trackpoint driver details to find driver locations.
The file must be edited as an administrator in Vista and Windows 7. To do this, at the programs box type in notepad and on the notpad program in the menu right click and select, "Run as Administrator."
In Win7 x64 it is located at: (edit with Notepad run as Administrator).
c:\Program Files\Lenovo\Trackpoint\tp4table.dat
; Google Picasa
*,*,picasa3.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Windows Live Mail
*,*,wlmail.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Windows Live Writer
*,*,WindowsLiveWriter.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Apple ITunes
*,*,itunes.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Apple Safari
*,*,safari.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
Especially for "X" series owners that do not have the touchpad this is helpful.
Thanks for the tip by Matthew Kohut of Lenovo for mentioning that this technique had previously been done for other programs such as OpenOffice.
Message Edited by dfumento on 05-13-2009 12:12 PM
Message Edited by dfumento on 05-13-2009 12:13 PM
Message Edited by dfumento on 05-13-2009 12:14 PM
X201s 1440x900 LED backlight 2.13 GHz, 8 GB, Intel X25-M 160 GB SSD, Intel 6200 a/b/g/n, BT, 6-cell, 9-cell, Windows Ultimate 7 x64 SP1 RC, 3G/4G WiFi Hotspot, Lenovo USB to DVI converter
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I have this problem too and have added the following to c:\program files\synaptics\syntp\TP4table.dat right below the similar text:
; Steam Client Bootstrapper
*,*,Steam.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
; Rhinoceros 5.0 (64-bit)
*,*,Rhino.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9
This did nothing for me though (I have saved and rebooted) How do I know what to put in there? The two programs I am trying to scroll in are Steam and Rhinoseros 3D.
Btw, should not this be fixed by Lenovo?? Are there Thinkpads that don't have this problem and what makes them different?
Lenovo Thinkpad X230 - 3.3Ghz i5 - 16Gb ram - 240Gb Sandisk Extreme II ssd - crunchbang linux and win7

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Did you try using the forum search function?
I entered "scroll" and "itunes", without the quotation marks, and it presented me, amongst others, with the following thread as a possible solution;
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I have an x61s running Windows Vista business (32 bit).
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Somewhere on the web I found instructions for fixing this by editing file tp4table.dat located in c:/windows/system32
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