Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: realrox on March 18, 2006, 10:08:13 AM
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while rebuilding my computer (athlon 64 3200+, win xp sp2, 1024mb ram) and and adding everything back in, i find that in several areas the mouse (keymouse md) doesn't seem to be doing the right things. i have the last available drivers, i have tweaked all the available settings in tweakui & the mouse panel, explorer & ie. there doesn't seem to be any support from the manufacturer or windows. here's the story.
these are symtoms of the behavior i'm talking about:
1) i didn't like the latest downloadable version of AIM, so i went to older versions & got 5.9.3861. when i click or double click (my default mouse setting is single click), i can't open a messenger window. i have to actually right click & select
2) in one of my most used programs, wordperfect 11, i can't click & select a whole column in a table. i have to actually drag to select it.
i haven't really had problems anywhere else, (although i seem to remember instances where a click should bring up a context menu, but doesn't) but these are very noticeable, since i use them all the time.
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Try a normal PS2 mouse and see if that works. If not, it may well be TweakUI that's causing your problems - It wouldn't be the first time! ;)
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Have you made any changes to your system recently? When did this start? Which operating system are you using?
Flame
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it is a ps2 mouse, i have always used it, even before rebulding my system, using winxp sp2 and it was happenig before i installed tweakui
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A little history?
Why the rebuild?
Is this a fresh OS install?
Have you removed the mouse drivers, rebooted & let XP detect & install?
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been there done that. i had a major crash, i decided that since i had to start from scratch, i would do a hardware upgrade at this point, too. so yes it's a clean install. when i saw that i had a problem, i did uninstall mouse driver, reboot & start again.
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Is everything showing up OK in your Device Manager & DXdiag?
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everything shows up fine. i have no conflicts. and it seems to be working fine for other things. it was just those 2 annoyances. i wonder if it's the version of AIM that i downloaded? it might have been a beta, even tho it's the last before triton beta.