Amilo L7320 Revival

Background info:

To begin with I'm not a laptop fan. I did not own a laptop for a reason! I've got a good desktop at home, another one at work, and yet another one at my parents place. So wherever I was I had a full fledged very capable and productive desktop environment. And whenever I was on the road I just used my smartphone to get online. I considered laptops to be a logistics and productivity hog. Dragging them around, charging them, working on their cumbered touchpad is a pain compared to a mouse experience on the desktop. Now I happened to receive a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7320 to do whatever with it at my will.

There are 3 things I did to it to make it a lot more capable:

1. I bought (for $10) another 512MB DDR2 RAM.
2. I installed ALPS driver. It adds scrollwheel functionality to the Amilo L7320 touchpad.
3. I installed touchfeeze. It turns off your touchpad while you're typing.

Actually I found 3 really annoying things about the FUSI Amilo L7320.

1. It came with 512MB of RAM. This is not even enough to load a modern browser. So if I wanted performance, lots of tabs, and applications running parallel I had to remotely log into my home desktop. Doubling the RAM to (1GB) helped a whole lot. Now Chrome fits into the RAM just fine, and the Amilo is not swapping anymore the minute I try to actually use it.
2. The PS/2 touchpad of the Amilo L7320 is quite a bulky one. Neither has it support for multitouch (by hardware) nor does it support middle button or scrollwheel emulation out of the box. I tried installing a plethora of Synaptics touchpad drivers at least 3 versions of the official releases and 2 patched versions with all features unlocked. - None of that helped to my greatest anger. And while scroll wheel emulation and touchpad partitioning did work under Knoppix, I could not get the same thing working for XP. The Fujitsu Amilo L7320 support site useless. They did not have the link for a more capable touchpad driver. My only lead was the device string "ACPI\PNP0F13\4&10C7922&0" in the device manager. Googling that also led back to the Synaptics sites and further miseries. Finally I figured I should look at touchpad drivers of similar FuSi models on the Fujitsu support site. And that's what brought me to the solution eventually. I found someting called the ALPS Pointing-device driver on the L7300 drivers site. So browse to the L7300 drivers, instead of the L7320! The name of the file is FTS_TouchpadAlpsPointingdevice_5514012_1001816.
3. Third thing that was really annoying that I would accidentally hit the touchpad, dislocate my cursor, and find that I am typing garbled stuff. I realized that I ended up typing less and less on my Amilo because of this, that really set my productivity back. The solution came in the form of a cool utility called Touchfreeze. Touchfreeze turns off your touchpad, while you are typing, so accidentally hitting the touchpad with your thumb no longer places your cursor to a new location while you are typing.