Can't turn off Mouse Snap-to

[Allen Bouchard]

Recently my mouse started exhibiting the Snap-to behavior,
even though I had not turned it on. I went into mouse
settings on the Control Panel intending to turn it off and
saw that it was not enabled. I have tried to disable this
annoying behavior by enabling and then disabling it in
mouse settings, I have also gone into the registry and saw
that the value was already 0, I tried deleting the value
altogether but that didn't work either.

If anyone has any ideas of why this may be occuring and how
to end it, i would be most appreciative.

TIA
Allen

 

[Kelly]

Hi Allen,

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key. Once there, modify the
dword value to 0.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"SnapToDefaultButton"="1"

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Allen,

It might be your mouse software/drivers. Uninstalling helps? [As answered by David Candy in another post]

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-----------------------------------------


Recently my mouse started exhibiting the Snap-to behavior,
even though I had not turned it on. I went into mouse
settings on the Control Panel intending to turn it off and
saw that it was not enabled. I have tried to disable this
annoying behavior by enabling and then disabling it in
mouse settings, I have also gone into the registry and saw
that the value was already 0, I tried deleting the value
altogether but that didn't work either.

If anyone has any ideas of why this may be occuring and how
to end it, i would be most appreciative.

TIA
Allen

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Allen Bouchard" said in news:[email protected]:

Recently my mouse started exhibiting the Snap-to behavior,
even though I had not turned it on. I went into mouse
settings on the Control Panel intending to turn it off and
saw that it was not enabled. I have tried to disable this
annoying behavior by enabling and then disabling it in
mouse settings, I have also gone into the registry and saw
that the value was already 0, I tried deleting the value
altogether but that didn't work either.

If anyone has any ideas of why this may be occuring and how
to end it, i would be most appreciative.

TIA
Allen

We're supposed to guess which mouse you're using?

I had a Logitech mouse that did the same thing. The problem was exhibited
after installing their software (Mouseware). The problem is that their
driver seems to augment the PS/2 driver instead of usurp it, or it doesn't
understand how to force default settings before it installs. Acceleration
was on although it was disabled in Logitech's mouse. Snap-in was off but I
still got the snap to the default button (if one was so assigned). I found
out that I had to configure the PS/2 driver used before the Logitech install
so it was using default settings and that acceleration and snap-to were
turned off. That meant I had to uninstall Logitech's software, reboot to
have the mouse detected and Windows use the default PS/2 mouse driver,
configure the mouse applet to disable acceleration and the snap-to features,
and then install Logitech's software. That was back in some pre-9.x version
of their Mouseware. They seem to have fixed that bug in version 9 so I
don't have to worry about how the current mouse is configured when I install
their software.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Great info, Vanguard.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-----------------------------------------

Recently my mouse started exhibiting the Snap-to behavior,
even though I had not turned it on. I went into mouse
settings on the Control Panel intending to turn it off and
saw that it was not enabled. I have tried to disable this
annoying behavior by enabling and then disabling it in
mouse settings, I have also gone into the registry and saw
that the value was already 0, I tried deleting the value
altogether but that didn't work either.

If anyone has any ideas of why this may be occuring and how
to end it, i would be most appreciative.

TIA
Allen

We're supposed to guess which mouse you're using?

I had a Logitech mouse that did the same thing. The problem was exhibited
after installing their software (Mouseware). The problem is that their
driver seems to augment the PS/2 driver instead of usurp it, or it doesn't
understand how to force default settings before it installs. Acceleration
was on although it was disabled in Logitech's mouse. Snap-in was off but I
still got the snap to the default button (if one was so assigned). I found
out that I had to configure the PS/2 driver used before the Logitech install
so it was using default settings and that acceleration and snap-to were
turned off. That meant I had to uninstall Logitech's software, reboot to
have the mouse detected and Windows use the default PS/2 mouse driver,
configure the mouse applet to disable acceleration and the snap-to features,
and then install Logitech's software. That was back in some pre-9.x version
of their Mouseware. They seem to have fixed that bug in version 9 so I
don't have to worry about how the current mouse is configured when I install
their software.

 

[Allen Bouchard]

-----Original Message-----
Allen,

It might be your mouse software/drivers. Uninstalling

helps? [As answered by David Candy in another post]wrote in message [email protected]...

Recently my mouse started exhibiting the Snap-to behavior,
even though I had not turned it on. I went into mouse
settings on the Control Panel intending to turn it off and
saw that it was not enabled. I have tried to disable this
annoying behavior by enabling and then disabling it in
mouse settings, I have also gone into the registry and saw
that the value was already 0, I tried deleting the value
altogether but that didn't work either.

If anyone has any ideas of why this may be occuring and how
to end it, i would be most appreciative.

TIA
Allen
.

I'm not using any special software for my mouse, just the
default Windows driver.

 

[Allen Bouchard]

-----Original Message-----
"Allen Bouchard" said in news:1108201c3f52b$45e88110 [email protected]:

We're supposed to guess which mouse you're using?

I had a Logitech mouse that did the same thing. The problem was exhibited
after installing their software (Mouseware). The problem is that their
driver seems to augment the PS/2 driver instead of usurp it, or it doesn't
understand how to force default settings before it installs. Acceleration
was on although it was disabled in Logitech's mouse. Snap-in was off but I
still got the snap to the default button (if one was so assigned). I found
out that I had to configure the PS/2 driver used before the Logitech install
so it was using default settings and that acceleration and snap-to were
turned off. That meant I had to uninstall Logitech's software, reboot to
have the mouse detected and Windows use the default PS/2 mouse driver,
configure the mouse applet to disable acceleration and the snap-to features,
and then install Logitech's software. That was back in some pre-9.x version
of their Mouseware. They seem to have fixed that bug in version 9 so I
don't have to worry about how the current mouse is configured when I install
their software.


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It's an IBM USB mouse, but I didn't install drivers for
it, I'm just using default Windows drivers.

 

[Allen Bouchard]

-----Original Message-----
and problem
is that their _
_

It's an IBM USB mouse, but I didn't install drivers for
it, I'm just using default Windows drivers.
.

OK, I uninstalled the mouse driver, removed the mouse, and
plugged it back in. Windows reinstalled the driver and
after a reboot everything is back to normal.

Thanks for the help

Allen

 

[Allen Bouchard]

-----Original Message-----
and problem
is that their _
_

It's an IBM USB mouse, but I didn't install drivers for
it, I'm just using default Windows drivers.
.

I replied saying that it was working after uninstalling
the driver and removing/reattaching the mouse followed by
a reboot -- a post that hasn't shown up yet. The fix
didn't work for long, after a couple minutes I am back to
Snap-to behavior despite having the option turned off.

Oh well, I'll just have to get used to stuff happening
without me knowing what it is until it's too late to fix
because a message pops up just as I click on something.

Allen

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Not sure why (
You may try installing the software from IBM. No guarantee it will solve the problem, but worth trying.

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
-----------------------------------------

-----Original Message-----
and
how problem
is that their _
_

It's an IBM USB mouse, but I didn't install drivers for
it, I'm just using default Windows drivers.
.

I replied saying that it was working after uninstalling
the driver and removing/reattaching the mouse followed by
a reboot -- a post that hasn't shown up yet. The fix
didn't work for long, after a couple minutes I am back to
Snap-to behavior despite having the option turned off.

Oh well, I'll just have to get used to stuff happening
without me knowing what it is until it's too late to fix
because a message pops up just as I click on something.

Allen

 

[Kelly]

Have you checked your setting here:

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key. Once there, modify the
dword value to 0.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"SnapToDefaultButton"="0"