Logitech trakman and XP

[Flycaster]

I have the Logitech trackman installed on XP. I have customized its
buttons, but they don't work on the startup. In order to get them to
work as customized, I have to first open Mouseware and click OK. Is
this a problem with the interface between XP and Trackman?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Click start/run, type msconfig and click ok. Go to the startup tab, make
sure the entry loading logitech's software is enabled.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Flycaster]

Hi,

Click start/run, type msconfig and click ok. Go to the startup tab, make
sure the entry loading logitech's software is enabled.

Thanks, Rick. But before I do this, I'd liek to ask a few more related
questions to you fix. I've got three items in my startup that appear to
be related to Trackman. If I check them, I'm sure that I'll get a
trackman icon in my systray and that my customized buttons wil work.
However, I like to keep my start ups to an absolute minimum so conserve
resources. Right now all that appears in my systray on startup is AVG
and ZoneAlarm. But then again, when I go through the open Mouseware and
close it with OK, I'm probably increasing resource usage at that point.
So, if this be the case (is it?), I guess I might as well just go
ahead and enable things through the startup. What do you think?

 

[Flycaster]

Thanks, Rick. But before I do this, I'd liek to ask a few more related
questions to you fix. I've got three items in my startup that appear to
be related to Trackman. If I check them, I'm sure that I'll get a
trackman icon in my systray and that my customized buttons wil work.
However, I like to keep my start ups to an absolute minimum so conserve
resources. Right now all that appears in my systray on startup is AVG
and ZoneAlarm. But then again, when I go through the open Mouseware and
close it with OK, I'm probably increasing resource usage at that point.
So, if this be the case (is it?), I guess I might as well just go ahead
and enable things through the startup. What do you think?

Went and answered my own questions, I think. Enabled the three startup
items and checked resources before and after. Not much difference when
customized mouse buttons are enabled at startup. So, to be efficient,
I'll just leave things that way.

 

[Malke]

Thanks, Rick. But before I do this, I'd liek to ask a few more
related
questions to you fix. I've got three items in my startup that appear
to
be related to Trackman. If I check them, I'm sure that I'll get a
trackman icon in my systray and that my customized buttons wil work.
However, I like to keep my start ups to an absolute minimum so
conserve
resources. Right now all that appears in my systray on startup is AVG
and ZoneAlarm. But then again, when I go through the open Mouseware
and close it with OK, I'm probably increasing resource usage at that
point.
So, if this be the case (is it?), I guess I might as well just go
ahead and enable things through the startup. What do you think?

I'm not Rick, but I hope you won't mind if I pop in here. Unless you
have a seriously under-powered computer, XP can handle running lots
more programs at a time than Win9x. I also like to keep programs
running in the background at a minimum, but the Win95 days of having to
carefully decide where the few precious resources would be spent are
over. You shouldn't have any problem running your Mouseware stuff and
other programs if you have a decent processor and 256MB of RAM (the
minimum for XP, IMO).

Malke

 

[Flycaster]

Flycaster wrote:




I'm not Rick, but I hope you won't mind if I pop in here. Unless you
have a seriously under-powered computer, XP can handle running lots
more programs at a time than Win9x. I also like to keep programs
running in the background at a minimum, but the Win95 days of having to
carefully decide where the few precious resources would be spent are
over. You shouldn't have any problem running your Mouseware stuff and
other programs if you have a decent processor and 256MB of RAM (the
minimum for XP, IMO).

Malke

I guess you are right. Even with the running of the Logitech software
on start up (along with my browser-Maxthon, email client-Thunderbird,
Winamp, AVG and ZoneAlrm), I'm still only using about 28% of my resources.