Intellipoint Software > 5.5 causes screen flickering

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This is a user to user group, "Microsoft" doesn't "read" them. If you
want "official Microsoft tech support" call them and open a ticket.
 
My intellimouse 6.02 software worked fine UNTIL I installed a microsoft
windows update. Thats when my applications started to flicker. And yes, it
was driving me mad. I therefore re-formatted my computer. Everything was
great until the last few windows updates. Then bingo! I'm back to flicker and
can't get rid of it. Even when rolling back the windows updates, my programs
flickered. Ugh!

Anyway, thanks to this site, un-installing the explorer software has fixed
my problem. I wish I knew this 5 days ago!
 
Just to let you know that I too have been experiencing this. My active window
would jump or flicker, not the whole display, just the active window. It's
been driving me mad for weeks, funnily enough, probably ever since I got my
new mouse ! Just now I looked in Windows Task Manager at Processes and
noticed which application seem to have CPU usage which coincided with the
flicker and it was ipoint.exe. I shut down the process and it is fine. At
that point I did a search for ipoint.exe and came up with you guys. Do I need
ipoint.exe at all ? Can I just uninstall the whole thing ? Or do I need to
downgrade to 5.5 ?
 
i have the same problems, just was under a MS-Support Ticket for another
issue for a week with instant testing,
so there should nothing else cause the problem.

Installed a new Explorer 3.0 USB-mouse, from the CD tried 6.1 (also the
latest now available at MS-download site)

->>flickering : Explorer Windows, Desktop when closing an Explorer Window,
Filemaker Pulldowns are corrupted,
Screensaver (Charater) is jerking.

deinstalled, reboot

installed 5.2, but no Explorer 3.0 found, so deinstalled, reboot,
installed IP 4.0, everything is fine.


br, klaus
 
copotay said:
BTW, does ipoint.exe have to run, I have the wireless internet explorer
2.0 mouse and wireless multimedia keyboard? Should I just uninstall the
intellipoint software or look for an older version?
Click to expand...

you can uninstall it, but any "advanced" features will be lost - you may
not care about that tho, so give it a try.

The subject line states, and I agree whole heartedly, that version 5.4
(and 5.5 too) are/were very stable and work just fine with older mice
(pre 2006). The newer mice do require the newest drivers to take
advantage of their advanced features (zoom viewer, etc).

FWIW, I just installed 6.1 on a entry-level laptop running XP w/ a new
"compact optical mouse" and that driver worked fine - no flicker at all,
advanced features work fine, and no conflicts with the built-in trackpad.
So I suspect the flickering is a conflict issue with just a small subset
of systems out there. those experienceing the flickering should consider
posting your config so we can see if there is some common factor.

It certainly sounds like the mouse interrupts are causing the video driver
to hic-up; a video driver update may be in order (or down-grade; often
video updates are just for newer cards and they sometimes break older
cards - go back to a driver that was released shortly after your card was
released). And be patient - video driver changes almost never go smoothly
at first. Read up before jumping in, a clean uninstall of the old driver
first may be necessary. you could also investigate the IRQ being used,
and alter it if possible.

Oh, and if it's a PS2/USB mouse, try it both ways if you can - those two
interfaces will handle interrupts differently and that may be all it
takes to stop the flicker. Worth a try.

Hopefully MS will get around to resolving it someday, good luck...
 
I am using now Intellipoint 4.0, no problem at all, (XP, all updates, non of
Intellipoint of course ;-))
also mouse button setting of the "ESC"-command works fine,
which is a problem working CAD and as MS had purged this option since IP 5.X
 
Unfortunately I have to agree with everything written on this forum so far;
among other things, indeed a lot of screen refresh problems are caused in
professional 3D applications (those using OpenGL I believe) by IntelliPoint >
5.5 software. If you are searching the Internet you will find that this issue
has been reported since the beginning of last year, and I cannot believe
Microsoft still hasn't done anything to address this issue. I used to be a
Microsoft hardware fan, but not anymore. Logitech seems to care a lot more of
their customers.
And this - for me is one of the reasons not to go the Vista way.

I own two Microsoft mouses - a simple "Wireless Optical 2.0" on my desktop
and a "Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 6000" which are both excellently
engineered pieces of hardware but their software support lacks badly. Except
the whistles and bells, of course...

I noticed the aforementioned problem, a very disturbing screen flickering in
a 3D-modeling software called Rhinoceros (widely used in architecture), and I
also noticed a strange error in Google Earth - the scroll wheel zoom works in
the opposite sense. These two issues are both specific to IntelliPoint
drivers; I'm having no such trouble with IntelliPoint 5.5 but I cannot use
any newer version.
Therefore no Windows Vista for me and I'm not the only mad professional in
my group.

I hope someone responsible from Microsoft reads this. They lost me as a
customer but they still have a lot more to lose.
 
Having similar problems here... The only way you can eliminate this problem
for good is by buying a Logitech.
 
There's hope for us yet! As of October 2, 2007 there is finally a new
release of the software. I have installed the mouse software and there is NO
FLICKERING....YET!!

I don't know how to make links but here's the software versions:

Microsoft IntelliPoint 6.20.182.0 for Windows XP and Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
IP32Eng6.20.182.0.exe (32-bit) 14.12 MB
IP64Eng6.20.182.0.exe (64-bit) 15.11 MB

Microsoft IntelliType Pro 6.20.182.0 for Windows XP and Vista (32-bit and
64-bit)
ITP32Eng6.20.182.0.exe (32-bit) 13.98 MB
ITP64Eng6.20.182.0.exe (64-bit) 14.97 MB

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseand...d/Download.mspx
 
Jason, maybe I'm wrong but I cannot find it on Microsoft's website but here's
the link where I did find it:

http://filehippo.com/download_intellitype/

Tell me if this is correct but according to that site, this was released on
Oct 2d by MS. Can't figure out why I cannot find it any longer on their
website. Oh, well....

PS: I'm still flickering away! I think I'm getting used to it. That's
scary.
 
Yes, that's the version I downloaded for my keyboard.

I just wish MS would have corrected the flickering with their latest update.
They are so well aware of the problem and yet it still exists, at least for
me.
 
Perhaps you need to consider the flickering is caused by the particular
video drivers you are using? If it was very wide spread then they would
have seen it in testing. Try reducing "hardware acceleration" on your
Display Settings. You will find it in Advanced button, Troubleshooting Tab.
 
This was bugging me for a couple of weeks - the flickering & shuddering was
most noticeable in all Adobe applications, but was also present in my Audio
applications. It essentially made a £2,900 system running over £40,000 worth
of software cloose to unusable.
Uninstalling Intellipoint 6.1 cured the issue, bt of course I lost all
additional button functionality. As I used to have CTRL set to Second Left &
ALT to Second Right, loss of usefulness makes this bug joke.
 
Same for me. I have a Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 and it requires
6.0 to operate so I can't even go down to 5.5. I have a HP NC6120 laptop
with XP Pro SP2 with all the latest HP drivers. I get flickering with
Cisco's ASDM gui ASA firewall manager.

I run AutoHotkey and have a script to toggle IPoint.exe on/off (kill and
run) tied to Ctrl-Alt-m.

Below is the script I grabbed off the net if anyone is interested:


Hotkey, ^!m, ToggleIpoint

ToggleIpoint:
Process, wait, ipoint.exe, 1
NewPID = %ErrorLevel% ; Save the value immediately since ErrorLevel is
often changed.
if NewPID = 0
{
run, C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe
Msgbox ,262192,Microsoft Mouse,Ipoint.exe ON, 2
return
}
; Otherwise:

Process, priority, %NewPID%, Low
Process, priority, , High ; Have the script set itself to high priority.
Run, taskkill /F /IM %NewPID%,,hide
Msgbox ,262208,Microsoft Mouse,Ipoint.exe OFF, 2
Process, WaitClose, %NewPID%, 3
if ErrorLevel ; The PID still exists.
MsgBox Microsoft Ipoint Mouse Program did not close
return
 
I've got the same problem with the newest version of the Intellipoint
software. I'm using Windows XP. I've noticed a short flickering after
switching back to the program using the taskbar in several programs e.g.
WinRAR...
Now I will uninstall the Intellipoint Software and waiting for a bugfix.
 
i am having the same problem and found no upgrades for this problem!
it is now jan,13 2008 !
i will probably get rid of this mouse and board and go back to wire
screw it!
i am experimenting with snoop shield 1.0.7 (free version) google it!
i dont want to remove the files for intellipoint yet.
lets see if i can control this!

fix this Microsoft time is money!
 
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