How to adjust mouse sensitivity?

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I was wanting to adjust the sensitivity of my mouse movement under XP
Home SP2, went to Control Panel, but there is no "Mouse" item there. Any
suggestions on how to configure my mouse? MTIA
 
You probably have your Control Panel under category view. Top left, click
classic view and you'll have the mouse listed. Double click it the Mouse
icon.
 
Byte said:
You probably have your Control Panel under category view. Top left, click
classic view and you'll have the mouse listed. Double click it the Mouse
icon.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the suggestion, Control is in Classic View and no mouse.
 
If you definitely have no mouse icon in the control panel you may have a
corrupted main.cpl file. Rather than search for it go to the Start/ Run
command line and type "control mouse" (without the quotes) and this should
open your Mouse properties box.

petecee
 
First try this. Click START / RUN and type main.cpl
That should open the control panel mouse applet.
Could be that the mouse icon in control panel has been hidden. Do you have
"tweakUI" on your computer? If not download it from Microsoft. Search for
"powertoys for windowsXP". There are many of these powertoys. Download
"tweakui". From that program look in the left column for "Control Panel". To the
right you will see control panel extensions with a box for checkmarks. Look for
the one named "main.cpl". If unchecked... check it.
There are a few mouse settings you can make directly from tweakui. See "mouse"
in the left hand column.
 
I was wanting to adjust the sensitivity of my mouse movement under XP
Home SP2, went to Control Panel, but there is no "Mouse" item there. Any
suggestions on how to configure my mouse? MTIA
Click to expand...

Open Control Panel. Click on the link in the left hand column that says
"Switch to Classic view." The Control Panel window will change appearance
showing a list of the installed control panel applets including "Mouse."

The link that you clicked earlier will now say "switch to Category view."
Click again to return to the previous view if that's what you prefer or are
used to.
 
petecee said:
If you definitely have no mouse icon in the control panel you may have a
corrupted main.cpl file. Rather than search for it go to the Start/ Run
command line and type "control mouse" (without the quotes) and this should
open your Mouse properties box.
Click to expand...

Firstly, thanks to everyone who has replied so far with suggestions.
Looks like the problem is there is no main.cpl file in the expected
location, I've found a copy in "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dllcache" which
works fine, is there a preferred folder I should copy it to so that it
appears in Control Panel?

MTIA
 
bof said:
Thanks for the suggestion, Control is in Classic View and no mouse.
Click to expand...


bof, you may want to use these instructions from Kelly's Korner to bring
back the mouse icon in Control Panel. Source:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm#cpiconsmissing

Control Panel - Icons Missing

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT

Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load

Look in the right pane and you'll see the Control Panel Icons that have been
disabled. You can either right click on the "don't load" subkey and select
Delete to restore all disabled icons, or you can right click on each of the
items in the right pane and select Delete to selectively restore them.
Scroll up to Control Panel Applets for a listing of what each one is.
 

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