Cannot set calendar with mouse

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Norm Froman

Outlook 2000 - When I pull up the calendar and a new
appt., as I move from the date to the pick area, it
disappears. This is a problem in both the time setting
and the date setting. As soon as I try to move to the
date or the time, they disappear. Is this a setting?

Norm Froman - (e-mail address removed)
 
I share your frustrations and I have had the same problem
since installing on Windows XP. Today, after many hours
(some of them paid for with MS Support), I now have
functionality.

Here is what I did:
Go to this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232.asp#1
04

Look at the Mouse Property section (5.3 and 5.4).
Using "Regedit.exe" and be careful if you do not know
about the registry settings!!! (Go to Run under Start
Menu and type in Regedit.exe), find the appropriate keys
and make the changes so that the registry values agree
with the defaults as noted in the article.

If you haven't already downloaded it, download TWEAK UI
(TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe) from MS

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-
9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

This allows you to "tweak" your mouse settings.

I think that the item you want to play with is
called "Hover Sensitivity" which I first jacked up to 32,
and made sure that the Hover Time was set at 400 which
fixed the Outlook problem . I then went back and reset
the Hover Sensitivity to 2 and voila then problem
dissappeared.

As usual...the problem is either not widespread or nobody
knows how to deal with it. I have no idea how my problem
started or what caused it and apparently neither does MS!!

Good luck!!!
 
As a follow-up (and because I am so concerned that this
might reoccur),

In the Tweak UI program, I went into the "X-Mouse"
settings under mouse and just for curiosity sake I
clicked on the "Activation Follows Mouse" setting and
applied the changes. This setting appears to cause the
problem or at least contribute to it. So if you are
trying out the TWEAK UI, you might also want to cheak
this out as well.
 
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