Eee PC 1000H Updated with New Multi-Touch

July 29th, 2008 by Joanna Stern  

ASUS has touted the multi-touch trackpads of its Eee PCs, but every time I have gone to test the multi-touch controls on the pad I can’t do much more than zoom in on a picture by pinching the pad. I are happy to report that finally Eee PC users are able to do more with their fingers. Its nothing like the N-Trig multi-touch drivers for the Dell XT, but ElanTech, the company responsible for the smartpad on the Eee PCs, has updated the drivers for the touchpad to enable more multi-touch gestures (you can find the drivers here). Thanks to JKKMobile for tipping us off on the new drivers. I downloaded the drivers to the Eee PC 1000H running Windows Vista and they worked right away (they should work for XP as well; there is no Linux driver version). In the mouse properties window, an extra ElanTech tab allows for tweaking the different multi-touch gestures. I was then able to create commands that go along with different gestures. For instance, I configured a  two finger tap on the trackpad to launch Firefox. Swiping three fingers down will bring up an ALT+Tab command that allows for moving through windows. Swiping three fingers up will launch My Computer. You can also do more in a photo gallery program. In Windows Photo Gallery, I was able to pinch to zoom, but also able to rotate the picture with a swipe. It is all very MacBook Air like. I like the gestures the best in the browser. A three finger swipe will move forward or backward between Web pages and two fingers up and down will scroll through the page. Take a look at the video below to see the gestures in action.





If you have downloaded the drivers to your Eee PC let us know what other gestures you have gotten to work.

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8 Responses to “Eee PC 1000H Updated with New Multi-Touch”

  1. anonymous Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    do you still recommend the MSI Wind over the Eee 1000H even though the eee has the multitouch for the same price? I find the multitouch really useful.

  2. eeepc awesomeness Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    I will certainly have to do this driver update when I get my 1000h. I can’t believe the value that this computer is. Multitouch. Freakin’ multitouch! The computer is now only $450, has 6 cell battery, webcam, atom processor, easily upgradeable ram, and multitouch! +1 to laptopmag for the review and +1 to ASUS for bringing multitouch to an inexpensive computer!

  3. mario Says:
    September 13th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    I have downloaded that upgrade but can’t get that working at all pls help

  4. mr.ed Says:
    September 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    The Asus also receives 802.11n signals, a big step ahead of the Wind.

  5. Asu Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    hi, where do i configure e.g. when i tip with 3 finger it should open firefox?

    thanks

  6. Casper Says:
    April 5th, 2009 at 7:18 am

    Hi, which driver did you use?
    The cpu is a 32-bit, but when I go to the website that you’ve put a link to I see that there is two different 32-bit versions. There is the ps/2 32 for bit and the usb for 32-bit.
    Please help :)

  7. Doc Rings Says:
    May 24th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    I used the PS/2 32bit driver update from ASUS and it did not work. I did download the driver from the Elantech site, and that worked fine… go figure.

    Just make sure you unzip it in the folder you will permanently keep it when you run the “setup.exe” program to install the new driver.

    Go to your mouse icon in control panel, and hit the Elantech tab, and it will show a “PS/2 Mouse” for you EEE PC (at least on my 900 HD/XP)

  8. Paximus Says:
    February 5th, 2010 at 12:11 pm

    My antivirus program “F-PROT” reports the following on the “ETD7.0.3.6_ps2drv_x86.exe” driver downloaded from the link above:

    Found Passwordthief: W32/Pws.BQZG (accurate)

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