OT: Slow Mouse

There's usually a setup for mouse speed in your control panel under "mouse", and some drivers have strange opinions about how fast it should be by default. You've already tried to get in there and speed it up?

Maybe you need longer arms?

Use the adapter for keyboard and the PS/2 for the mouse? Not really a solution, but it may function as a decent workaround.

It shows up in Device Manager as "HID-compliant mouse", but with no settings capability.

...Jim Thompson

go to MOUSE in Control Panel, the settings for mouse speed are there as are the mouse trails and etc...

Charles

Yep, it's there, and the hardware tab shows both the touchpad and the "HID-compliant mouse", but the speed settings are only varying the touchpad speed.

...Jim Thompson

So if Microsoft thinks they're smarter than you, does that mean that you're dumber than Microsoft?

Horrors. In your specialty you can't even threaten not to work for them.

are

You may have to go into System/hardware/device manager and disable the touchpad before you get the mouse control you are looking for or you might goto say logitec and download a USB mouse driver. My solution was to buy a USB mouse.

Charles

: > Yep, it's there, and the hardware tab shows : > both the touchpad and the "HID-compliant mouse", : > but the speed settings are only varying the : > touchpad speed. : > ...Jim Thompson : : You may have to go into System/hardware/device : manager and disable the touchpad before you get : the mouse control you are looking for or you might : goto say logitec and download a USB mouse driver. : My solution was to buy a USB mouse. : Charles

Disabling or better still, uninstalling disconnected devices is always recommended, otherwise, you still have drivers installed/loaded that don't pertain to your new hardware.

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Behold, Jim Thompson signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:

Hi Jim,

Try uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling the mouse driver. Nearly always works for me! :-)

I have a Vaio notebook too. You cannot use two different drivers on a single PS2 line, but you can get a Logitech USB-mouse and with mouseware you can select the different devices and both can function simultaneously with their respective drivers. The other possibility is to disable the touchpad (in the setup program), install the right driver for the mouse or better use the normal windows driver and then activate the touchpad again, hoping that it works at least in the basic functions. Fancy pull-and-click will get lost, but since you have the mouse it won't matter.

After many tries at various settings (and cabling) the following works...

Disable HID-compliant (USB) mouse.

Route mouse via PS/2 port (normal speed returns).

Keyboard via USB.

Now I can hang my laptop onto my KVM and utilize yet another CPU for simulations ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Hi Jim- of course, you do seem to have a software driver problem, but this comes to mind as worth sharing with everyone anyway. I have to tell you, if a mouse starts working erratically (drifting to one corner, slowing down) it can be a sign that the PC's power supply is being loaded down. My main office computer here started showing weird mouse behavior a few days back. I have an optical mouse and when you lifted it, the cursor would slide toward a corner of the screen. Odd in itself, I wondered if I had a virus. Soon, I smelled hot phenolic and fiberglass. Smoke began to come out of the case and the screen went black. The LEDs were still on but the machines was dead. I replaced the power supply (which is typically the cause of such things) and it started right up. After a few seconds, however, smoke was pouring out of the case. I shut it down and opened it, and three power transistors (surface mount jobs) were so hot that they were sliding off their solder mount areas!! One had a hole blown in it, the other two were just along for the ride. They were every other one in the area where the dual rectifiers and power transistors are lined up. I did not have spares, had to get another motherboard, but the lesson was clear. Odd symptoms can be caused by power supply loading or drooping voltages.

Cheers!

Sir Charles W. Shults III, K. B. B. Xenotech Research

My problem is just one of those "Sony knows what you want better than you do you" situations.

Cured by turning off USB mouse drive (HID-complaint), using PS/2 port for mouse and USB for keyboard.

Everything is working just fine.

...Jim Thompson