Sidewinder and Intellipoint software.

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Alan

Hi,
hope someone has an idea of what the problem is here.
I recently purchased a Microsoft Sidewinder mouse,
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/gaming/productdetails.aspx?pid=100
The issue I have is in that when using the generic OS drivers the mouse
behaves itself but I lose the functionality of the extra buttons. If I load
the intellipoint software from the provided CD OR install the latest drivers
from M/S website it starts to really misbehave. What happens is that it will
act like I am pressing the two main buttons, this is quite random and it may
be just the left button activating or the right and occasionally a mixture
of both, if I go into taskmanager and end the intellipoint process the mouse
reverts back to its normal good behavior. This has happened on two machines
I have, both running Vista and one with a clean install and SP1 installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
 
C

Cari \(MS-MVP\)

In Device Manager, under the USB Controllers, Power Management tab, are they
set to go to sleep (default)? If so, uncheck the box.
 

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