Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Mouse Misbehavin"

[Jeff Greenfield (coyote]

We have several machines in the immediate family, although I've been tempted
to the dark side of Apple products a few times, this just is not practical
for me (us). All the machines are running some flavor of XP, except my
laptop which is the newest machine (just over a year old), which is running
Vista. 

I haven't had many problems with Vista, and although I don't remember how
you can disable all or most of those annoying security warnings that you get
every 30 seconds. Eventually, you'll have to migrate to Vista anyway, as MS
will not be supporting XP much longer, and I imagine as new app's come out,
they will be designed for Vista and may not work under XP. 

As far your problem with the mouse, the most common problem with this on
laptops with touch pads is dirt. Usually a good cleaning with compressed air
will fix it. But, this should not be the case on a new machine. I have also
had some weird behavior on my Vista laptop, and fooling around with some of
the settings in the control panel seemed to take care of it. It was all
trial and error but that took care of it for me.

As for a conventional mouse doing this, I've had some mice fail, sometimes
it's dirt, and if updated the drivers prior to the problem occurring it
could be a setting or two. 

Aren't computers fun?

Good Luck, 

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: LarryT [mailto:l02turner [at] comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:27 PM
To: Jeff Greenfield
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] Mouse Misbehavin"

Hi gang-
A while back a list member questioned why his mouse would jump to different 
parts of the page he was on for no apparent reason.  He was advised to check

and load any new drivers.

Didn't mention it at the time but I had the same problem with the glide pads

on my laptops and traditional mouse on my desktop.  Now, another laptop was 
bought Sunday and its glide pad does the same thing!

Yes, I checked to be sure I have the latest drivers and that didn;t seem to 
matter.  Strangest of all was a new laptop doing the same thing!

BTW, my new laptop has Vista which I am having trouble liking.  I am 
considering reinstalling Vista to see if that fixes any of the problems I am

having or I may install XP and go back to the devil I know.

Any comments?

Thx!
LarryT

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