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Re: Microsoft Wireless Desktop - Mouse click wierdness

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From: Jason Tsang
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:19
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With the Intellitype software installed, if you run mskey.exe when you hold
down a key and then let go, does it get correctly identified?

-- 
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

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"Paul Hopwood" <paul@hopwood.Borg..uk> wrote in message
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>
> I've just purchased Microsoft Wireless Desktop sets for several
> machines and am experiencing odd problems with the mouse click (left
> button).
>
> When I tap or press and release the button it seems to be doing a
> hold/select rather than releasing to perform a "click".  For example,
> if I click in a field then move the mouse the text between the pointer
> and the place clicked is highlighted and when clicking hyperlinks on
> web pages in IE nothing happens until I either click again or move the
> mouse pointer, both of which seem to suggest the button is somehow
> being "held down".
>
> I'm having this problem with four separate Wireless Desktop sets, each
> connected to different models of PC, three running Windows 2000 SP2
> one with SP4.  Tried using the standard MS W2K mouse drivers and the
> bundled Intellipoint software and problem is present with both.  Also
> seem to make no different whether the RF receiver is plugged into the
> USB port or using PS/2 connectors.  It seems like a "feature" rather
> than a fault with any of those but it's bl**dy annoying!  A "normal"
> wired Compaq (re-branded Logitech) mouse plugged into the same PCs
> does not suffer the same problem.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on it?
>
> -- 
> >iv< Paul >iv<
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