Hover off!

[Chris Watts]

The mouse/pointerhover facility is driving me mad! But I cannot find how
to turn it off! Help would be apprreciated.
I am refering not to the on-screen keyboard but to the select, or jump to,
on hover facility.

TIA
Chris

 

[Guest]

Do you mean that your Mouse Pointer automatically jumps to the default
buttons e.g. when you click File - Save then it immediately jumps to Save
button.

If that is so then:

1. Click Start - Control Panel - Mouse
2. Click Pointer Options tab uncheck the option "Automatically move pointer
to default button in a dialog box".

If that is not you are looking for then please explain a little bit more and
are you using a Laptop or any special mouse.

Hope this help, Let us know!

 

[Chris Watts]

I am using a laptop with both a touchpad and a wireless mouse.
I find that the "problem" occurs in several circumstances:

(1) I am typing data into document but leave the pointer over another place
in the document. After a short while the insert point has jumped to the
pointer and I find I am entering into a place that I had not intended.
(2) I am looking at a document or webpage that contains a link. If I
inadvertantly rest the pointer on that link I find that it suddenly follows
that link!

Does that explain the problem?
Chris

 

[Guest]

There is no an exact answer or setting for this particular behavior of mouse.
Everyone has different opinion on this hover setting. Like:

Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Most often this problem arises from touchpad sensitivity being set too high.
Brushing the touchpad with the heel of your hand (or possibly even air
moving over it) can cause the insertion point to move. You can adjust the
sensitivity through Control Panel.

Try plug in a "real" mouse. If the problem
goes away, then at least you know for sure it's *something* with the
touchpad or touchpad settings itself...

Some question answer from Google groups
http://groups.google.co.in/groups/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Mouse+Hover+setting

Hope you find an exact answer here. Let us know!

 

[Guest]

Not for me..that's not the problem.
Let's use some examples:
1. lets say you are playing poker online and there are two games you are
playing simultaniously but each display is 3/4 the side of you monitor. To
switch from game to game, i merely move my mouse pointer to the edge of the
display that is mostly hidden behind the current front display. The hidden
display immediately moves to the front without clicking the mouse. This is a
real problem. i want to click on the "behind" screen to make it come to the
"front". This mouse hover action is driving me up the wall.
2. I have two or three documents open in their own screen. They are layered
one behind the other with only a portion of the behind document visible.
Normally one should have to move the mouse pointer to the portion of the
hidden ("behind") document and perform a left mouse click to bring the behind
or inactive document to the front. However, the problem is that the hidden or
"behind" document becomes active immediately when the mouse hovers any
portion of the hidden document.
3. Imagine if you were trying to trying to enlarge a doument by getting the
corner of the document to enlarge it, and you missied the corner. The
document under the active one will immediately become active. You could go
back and forth until you precisely hit the corner of the document. What an
extreme pain.
4. I have read may complaints about this with no real solutions for me.
Please help if you understand the problem that appears to be widespread.

 

[inkleputDEL]

I have read may complaints about this with no real solutions for me.
Please help if you understand the problem that appears to be widespread.

You could probably get MS to make it worse in the interest of improving
advertising popup density.

JimL

 

[Guest]

Chris,
Did you ever resolve the problem?
I am struggling with what i think is the same thing you are dealing with.
I am going to press on and try other groups as well.
Let me know if you resolved the issue.
I tried another mouse, updating driver (have the latest), etc..Nothing will
change this problem to a normal mouse or file function.

 

[Guest]

I found the solution from reading other postings.
Since my computer is also new, i did not have any stray software loaded.
I did download the Tweak UI from the POWERTOYS and deactivated the x-mouse
function. That works.

 

[Chris Watts]

Partially. I altered the hover time.
Thanks
Chris