Re: Wireless optical mouse scrolling problems

"pshnfry" <pshnfry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mouse scrolling doesn't work in office programs, internet, e-mails, etc.
> If
> the wheel is spun through many clicks it might scroll a line or so.
> Mouse is Basic wireless optical. Operating system is XP. Problem has
> persisted accross multiple hardware and software removal and re-installs
> including two complete XP re-installs and motherboard/cpu upgrade. All
> (known) drivers are in place and upto date. Mouse software is
> Intellipoint
> 5.2 (Version 4.0 tried without success). Norton WinDoctor run over
> registry.
> Manual edit of relevant key in registry tried. All settings in mouse
> software tried. Reposition of wireless reciever tried. Batteries all
> good.
> Hardware is less than a month old. If my old optical corded Intellimouse
> is
> plugged into the PS2 port the scrolling is beautifull (but that mouse is
> now
> the "Homework PC mouse").
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on possible causes?


In Device Manager for the mouse device, up the sampling rate. Also up the
buffer size. If those don't work, get a different cordless mouse. Some are
very crappy.

When my Logitech cordless got damaged, I decided to try some other cordless
mice. IBM's (which is made by someone else, don't remember) would go into
sleep mode far too quickly and its polling rate while sleeping was too slow,
so I would be moving the mouse a lot before it finally got shook enough to
wake up. Microsoft's cordless took a bit longer to go to sleep (to consume
battery power) but was also slow to wake up. By slow, I'm talking about one
to one and a half seconds. Both the IBM and Microsoft were jerky in games
despite upping the sampling rate and/or buffer size. I ended up returning
each after trialing them and went back to the Logitech (which is heavier
because of using AA batteries instead of AAA so it was more fatiguing to my
pinky having to squeeze the mouse to constantly lift and move it, and why I
decided to hunt around for a lighter but just-as-good cordless mouse). So I
tried leaving Logitech but came back. Eventually I decided to go with a
corded mouse. As long as the cord doesn't bang against anything (to create
torque on the mouse) and the cord is free to move then I find it easier to
handle then the heavier cordless mice with their battery weight and having
to deal with erratic behavior when the batteries get low.

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