I am running Win2K/SP4.

After years of service my Microsoft Wheel Mouse is causing a problem.
I am using Intellipoint 4 to drive it. I have it set up so that the
wheel will scroll the page in applications.

With one application (Free Agent 1.21/32) the wheel used to work. But
recently it sometimes does not scroll the page.

If I go to Control Panel and open the Mouse driver and Troubleshoot
then the wheel works again for a while. Then later it doesn't work
with Free Agent anymore.

What is going on and how do I fix it. I have TweakUI in case I need
that.


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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
--Mark Twain

It's possible that your mouse has come to the end of its useful life.
Replacing it may be the only way to cure the problem. After 5 or so years
of excellent service, my Wheel Mouse began sporadically double-clicking
when I clicked the button once. I spet $20 to replace it, and the problem
is gone.


In microsoft.public.win2000.applications Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote:
> I am running Win2K/SP4.

> After years of service my Microsoft Wheel Mouse is causing a problem.
> I am using Intellipoint 4 to drive it. I have it set up so that the
> wheel will scroll the page in applications.

> With one application (Free Agent 1.21/32) the wheel used to work. But
> recently it sometimes does not scroll the page.

> If I go to Control Panel and open the Mouse driver and Troubleshoot
> then the wheel works again for a while. Then later it doesn't work
> with Free Agent anymore.

> What is going on and how do I fix it. I have TweakUI in case I need
> that.

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Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:40:56 -0700, Gary Smith <bitbucket@example.com>
wrote:

>It's possible that your mouse has come to the end of its useful life.
>Replacing it may be the only way to cure the problem.

It's pretty new - maybe 6 months.

It works properly on every other application but this one and then it
is intermittant.

Maybe I need to uninstall and reinstall the Intellipoint driver.


--

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
--Mark Twain

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:40:56 -0700, Gary Smith <bitbucket@example.com>
wrote:

>It's possible that your mouse has come to the end of its useful life.
>Replacing it may be the only way to cure the problem. After 5 or so years
>of excellent service, my Wheel Mouse began sporadically double-clicking
>when I clicked the button once. I spet $20 to replace it, and the problem
>is gone.
>
>
>In microsoft.public.win2000.applications Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote:
>> I am running Win2K/SP4.
>
>> After years of service my Microsoft Wheel Mouse is causing a problem.
>> I am using Intellipoint 4 to drive it. I have it set up so that the
>> wheel will scroll the page in applications.
>
>> With one application (Free Agent 1.21/32) the wheel used to work. But
>> recently it sometimes does not scroll the page.
>
>> If I go to Control Panel and open the Mouse driver and Troubleshoot
>> then the wheel works again for a while. Then later it doesn't work
>> with Free Agent anymore.
>
>> What is going on and how do I fix it. I have TweakUI in case I need
>> that.

I may have found the problem. IntelliPoint requires that a background
application be loaded at startup, named "point32.exe". When it's
loaded you can see it in the process table. I used to notice it there
a while back but somewhere along the way it disappeared from the
Startup directory. Now it's back and I believe that will cause
Intellipoint to operate properly.


--

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
--Mark Twain