Problems scrolling with touchpad only on certain overlays

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waffleicious

I've been having this issue with my touch pad for about a month now - or it could have been longer because I generally use a wireless mouse and not the touch pad.


It started with me not being able to scroll with two fingers ONLY in the Start Menu. I searched for other people with similar issues and tried many fixes, including increasing the sensitivity of scrolling, updating touch pad drivers, turning off scrolling acceleration, etc and nothing really worked.


What I found was that if I increased my two-finger scroll sensitivity to max through my Elan Smart-Pad drivers, I could scroll through the Start Menu, but only horizontally. I had never tried horizontal scrolling on the touch pad before, so I reduced the scrolling speed to normal and found that if I went strictly horizontal, it would scroll in the Start Menu, but very VERY slowly. Increasing my scrolling sensitivity to the max allowed me to scroll in the Start Menu but made it impossible to delicately scroll in web pages or file folders.


Now, I've noticed that I cannot scroll with two fingers at all while in Task View (a feature that I rarely used in the past) - no matter what my scroll sensitivity is set to.


I feel like all of this oints to an issue with my touch pad drivers but I just updated them right before posting this and nothing seems to have changed.


I only have an issue in certain Windows Explorer overlays and the scrolling works fine in other applications. Any recommendations on how I should proceed?


I am running on a Lenovo Ideapad y700-15ISK 80NV with an ELAN pointing device.


Upon looking further into the mouse properties, it says that the driver installed is from 2016 even though I just downloaded and installed the latest one (2019) from Lenovo's website. Maybe there is a way I can go in through Device Manager and remove the mouse then manually reinstall it with updated drivers?

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