Mouse Speed

[The Magnet]

Hi,

Ever since installing Vista I seem to have lost control of the mouse
speed. Even changing it in Vista does not fix it. The double click
is so fast, that 95% of the time is performs a double click when I did
not want it to. This is SO damn annoying.

It is an older Microsoft mouse with the light and wheel and buttons on
the side for going back and forth in Explorer and on the Internet. I
think it was called Intellipoint, or something like that.

Anyhow, does anyone know if this is a bug?

 

[Alan Edwards]

Intellipoint is the software for your mouse, not the name of the mouse
itself. Look underneath the mouse for the name, then see if there is
software available for it at
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/download/download.aspx?category=MK

....Alan

 

[The Magnet]

Intellipoint is the software for your mouse, not the name of the mouse
itself. Look underneath the mouse for the name, then see if there is
software available for it athttp://www.microsoft.com/hardware/download/download.aspx?category=MK

...Alan

It seems generic, having the name Intellipoint Optical USB and PS/2
Compatible. Other than that, nothing.

So, I'll see what the software has from the link you gave me.

Thanks!

 

[Ian D]

Hi,

Ever since installing Vista I seem to have lost control of the mouse
speed. Even changing it in Vista does not fix it. The double click
is so fast, that 95% of the time is performs a double click when I did
not want it to. This is SO damn annoying.

It is an older Microsoft mouse with the light and wheel and buttons on
the side for going back and forth in Explorer and on the Internet. I
think it was called Intellipoint, or something like that.

Anyhow, does anyone know if this is a bug?

Check in Intellipoint to make sure that the mouse button
isn't assigned to produce a double click. If that's okay and
if a single mouse click is producing a double click, the
problem is with the mouse. The button microswitch is
failing and developing severe contact bounce. You try a
known good mouse to confirm this.

 

[STAN STARINSKI]

To add to another person's response:

1) You can obviously control your mouse behavior, including pointer &
double-click speed from COntrolpanel-->Mouse, if multiple drivers and/or
multiple mce are present there will be tabs for each one manufacturer for
each mouse where you can adjust their behavior on top of Windows stanard
behaviors present in all mice, regalrdless of manufacturer.

2) For example you mentioned '"Intellipoint".
That means yours is a Microsoft mouse, mine also - it's Laser6000 here and
yes I installed intellipoint driver.

3) I however as a power user I did this trick:
I bought Microsoft mouse because it's simply the best for CAD/Graphics, but
I don't want its extra buttons & overhead intellipoint driver brings, e.g.:
the ipoint.exe service component of it is known to cause video problems,
even if not - it causes certain overhead.
I personally killed it but it's NOT as simple as "disabling" in services.msc
This is an especially persistent process which clings to life....but if you
know computers you can kill anything.

Based on the kind of question you asked, I better not post here complex
instructions, nor would you want to kill any services.

So keep using intellipoint, but you just need to:
a) make sure intellipoint is installed, and if not get it frm Microsoft
website rather than from disk that came with the mouse, as it's almost
certain the disk is obsolete now.
b) once installed, goto mouse properties to adjust speeds, etc....