cursor position on welcome screen

[William Kirk]

An annoying problem:

When I boot up to the welcome screen in Win XP Home, the cursor used to
appear as a hand over one of the user icons, so all I had to do was left
click the mouse once to logon for that user. There was no need to move the
mouse. Nice and easy.

A few months back this changed. Now the hand appears in the same place, but
when I left click the mouse a cursor arrow appears near the middle of the
screen. I then have to move the arrow cursor to the user icon and click
again to login. This happens with every cold boot, but on resets I can just
click once as before.

What determines the default position of the cursor on the Win XP welcome
screen?

The change may date from a time when I briefly changed a mouse setting to
"Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box", but I
changed back after a few days.

I have a Microsoft wireless optical intellimouse explorer 2.0. It is too
long ago for me to use system restore without losing other changes. Can
anyone help please? It is annoying but not worth reinstalling windows!!

William

 

[Rich]

Why not try uninstalling the mouse?
Use a generic for a few minutes and reinstall
the optical.
May work!
Rich

 

[William Kirk]

It didn't work, but it was a good idea! Any other suggestions welcome.

I uninstalled the wirless optical intellimouse, then ran a generic mouse for
a couple of bootups. Everything was fine with the generic (wired) mouse and
the cursor on the welcome screen stayed in the right place when I left
clicked. But when I reinstalled the intellipoint software 5.0 and then
rebooted with the optical mouse, the cursor moved just as before when I left
clicked it on the welcome screen.

It seems to be a problem related to intellimouse. It may be a mouse software
problem rather than a Win XP problem.

 

[Rich]

Is there a "snap to" feature in the software?
Some of MS older software had this feature.
Just a thought.

 

[William Kirk]

There is a mouse setting for "Automatically move pointer to the default
button in a dialog box", but when I use this it does not seem to affect the
Welcome screen. Is that what you mean by a "snap to" feature?

William

 

[Rich]

Re: move pointer to the default button in a dialog box.

In one of their versions they called that "Snap To".
If that has no effect i don't know what else to suggest.

At least you narrowed it down and it must be related to your
mouse software.
Good Luck,
Rich