How to modify mouse sensitivity to exit screensaver?

[ShadowTek]

My screensaver is being deactivated by too sensitive a mouse movement. How
do I decrease the sensitivity setting?

I seem to remember being able to do this before, but it may have been on a
different Windows platform.

 

[Tim Slattery]

My screensaver is being deactivated by too sensitive a mouse movement. How
do I decrease the sensitivity setting?

There's a "Mouse" applet in the Control Panel which allows you to
tweak many mouse settings.

 

[ShadowTek]

There's a "Mouse" applet in the Control Panel which allows you to
tweak many mouse settings.

Yes, I know that, but it does not provide a function that solves the
problem. I'm not trying to decrease the actual mouse sensetivity, just the
amount of movement that the screensaver responds to.

 

[George]

Yes, I know that, but it does not provide a function that solves the
problem. I'm not trying to decrease the actual mouse sensetivity, just the
amount of movement that the screensaver responds to.

Actually you cant unless the screen saver itself is designed that way. Go
into your screen saver settings of the screen saver you have chosen and if
there aren't any properties to change the setting there then this can not be
done. My current screen saver allows me to turn off the option of mouse
movement. Also allows me to adjust the mouse sensitivity.

George

 

[ShadowTek]

Actually you cant unless the screen saver itself is designed that way.
Go into your screen saver settings of the screen saver you have
chosen and if there aren't any properties to change the setting there
then this can not be done. My current screen saver allows me to turn
off the option of mouse movement. Also allows me to adjust the mouse
sensitivity.

On my old Win Me, I seem to remember being able to adjust this aspect for
every native screen saver there was.

So the screen savers that were shipped with XP were stripped of this
function?

 

[Bob I]

On my old Win Me, I seem to remember being able to adjust this aspect for
every native screen saver there was.

So the screen savers that were shipped with XP were stripped of this
function?

Lay the mouse on its back.

 

[ShadowTek]

Lay the mouse on its back.

That won't work either. lol I have a lazer mouse that sits on a sliding
tray and gets pushed under my desk when not in use. If someone bumps the
desk, the lazer will reflect off of the underside of the desk that is just
an inch or so above it.

Besides, part of the expectation of a screen saver is to function
automatically when you are away from you computer for an unexpected amount
of time. And, if you didn't know that you were going to be away from your
computer, then you wouldn't have known to flip that mouse over!

 

[Bob I]

Suppose you could disable the mouse as a wake up event.

 

[ShadowTek]

Suppose you could disable the mouse as a wake up event.

I like being able to use the mouse to disable the screen saver, but since
the native screen savers in XP suck, then I guess that's my only choice.

 

[ShadowTek]

I like being able to use the mouse to disable the screen saver, but
since the native screen savers in XP suck, then I guess that's my only
choice.

Oh well, I tried that and it didn't work.