Microsoft Wireless Desktop - Mouse click wierdness

[Paul Hopwood]

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I've just purchased Microsoft Wireless Desktop sets for several
machines and am experiencing odd problems with the mouse click (left
button).

When I tap or press and release the button it seems to be doing a
hold/select rather than releasing to perform a "click". For example,
if I click in a field then move the mouse the text between the pointer
and the place clicked is highlighted and when clicking hyperlinks on
web pages in IE nothing happens until I either click again or move the
mouse pointer, both of which seem to suggest the button is somehow
being "held down".

I'm having this problem with four separate Wireless Desktop sets, each
connected to different models of PC, three running Windows 2000 SP2
one with SP4. Tried using the standard MS W2K mouse drivers and the
bundled Intellipoint software and problem is present with both. Also
seem to make no different whether the RF receiver is plugged into the
USB port or using PS/2 connectors. It seems like a "feature" rather
than a fault with any of those but it's bl**dy annoying! A "normal"
wired Compaq (re-branded Logitech) mouse plugged into the same PCs
does not suffer the same problem.

Can anyone shed any light on it?

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[Jason Tsang]

With the Intellitype software installed, if you run mskey.exe when you hold
down a key and then let go, does it get correctly identified?

 

[Paul Hopwood]

With the Intellitype software installed, if you run mskey.exe when you hold
down a key and then let go, does it get correctly identified?

Certainly appears to be. Nor am I experiencing any problems at all
the with keyboard or indeed the mouse in general, just the behaviour
of the left button.

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[Biggles]

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I've just purchased Microsoft Wireless Desktop sets for several
machines and am experiencing odd problems with the mouse click (left
button).

When I tap or press and release the button it seems to be doing a
hold/select rather than releasing to perform a "click". For example,
if I click in a field then move the mouse the text between the pointer
and the place clicked is highlighted and when clicking hyperlinks on
web pages in IE nothing happens until I either click again or move the
mouse pointer, both of which seem to suggest the button is somehow
being "held down".

I'm having this problem with four separate Wireless Desktop sets, each
connected to different models of PC, three running Windows 2000 SP2
one with SP4. Tried using the standard MS W2K mouse drivers and the
bundled Intellipoint software and problem is present with both. Also
seem to make no different whether the RF receiver is plugged into the
USB port or using PS/2 connectors. It seems like a "feature" rather
than a fault with any of those but it's bl**dy annoying! A "normal"
wired Compaq (re-branded Logitech) mouse plugged into the same PCs
does not suffer the same problem.

Can anyone shed any light on it?

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Take a look at mouse properties in control panel and see if "click lock" is
turned on.

Biggles

 

[Paul Hopwood]

Take a look at mouse properties in control panel and see if "click lock" is
turned on.

Will take a look when I'm next in the office, but I don't recall
seeing this option. IntelliPoint 4.9 which comes with my Wireless
Optical Desktop for Bluetooth has it, but the Wireless Optical Desktop
(RF) sets I'm having the problem with came with IntelliPoint 5.

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[Biggles]

Take a look at mouse properties in control panel and see if "click lock" is
turned on.

Will take a look when I'm next in the office, but I don't recall
seeing this option. IntelliPoint 4.9 which comes with my Wireless
Optical Desktop for Bluetooth has it, but the Wireless Optical Desktop
(RF) sets I'm having the problem with came with IntelliPoint 5.

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I'm using IP5 and the option is there under "Activities".
If activated it does exactly as you describe

 

[Paul Hopwood]

I'm using IP5 and the option is there under "Activities".
If activated it does exactly as you describe

It's definitely NOT there on any of the machines I'm having the
problem with, all now running IntelliPoint 5.0 on Windows 2000.

The option appears on different machines running IntelliPoint 5.0 on
XP, IntelliPoint 4.9 (which will only install on Windows XP) and
IntelliPoint 4.12 under Windows 2000 but that version causes erratic
mouse movement.

On the machines which have the ClickLock option I've tried turning it
on and get similar symptoms on so I'm pretty sure that's the "fault"
and it could be resolved if the option were available in Windows 2000.

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