Disable scrolling-icon

Question

How can I disable this scrolling icon?

Windows 7, Synaptics TouchPad

Solution

According to this forum topic there should be a registry key you can change:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh]
"UseScrollCursor"=dword:00000000

Just add this to registry. Either copy-paste the above text into Notepad, save it as a .reg file and run it, or manually add it using RegEdit (on my system, this value didn't exist, so I had to create it manually). Afterwards, restart SynTPEnh.exe and SynTPHelper.exe (use TaskManager to kill them, then restart them from the Synaptics installation folder, which is usualy C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP). Or simply restart your system.

Comments

[Ankit]

let me guess, are you on dell ?

[Simón]

Hi there. It's almost 2020 and Synaptics didn't fix this bug.

[Zulakis]

I somehow managed to disable this in my old windows installation without modifying any icon files. There must be a way.

[Zulakis]

And yes, I only want to remove the icon.

[Ian Campbell]

+1 - Also note that on Windows 7 the .reg file will have to start with Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00, see this answer for reference.

[Simón]

This Registry hack works also on Windows 10.