Weird Mouse Behaviour

[Jim Thompson]

Hopefully somone can offer me some help with this annoying problem I have
been having for months.

Basically my mouse's scroll wheel is intermittently acting as a back button
in internet explorer. i.e. If I try to scroll using the wheel, I jump back
to the last page I viewed. I'm using an a4tech wireless mouse and I don't
think it is a driver issue - as I quite happily used the same mouse and
driver for over a year (on XP) without any problems.

Win XP (SP2), A4Tech Wireless Mouse & Keyboard, IE 6.0.2800.1106.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Matthew Shaw]

Holding down the shift key will make the scroll wheel act as a forward/back
control in internet explorer. Try not holding down the shift key as you
scroll, else if you are not holding it down, sticky keys could have been
enabled which can lock in your shift key (it's either sticky keys or some
bug). Goto control panel>accessibility and disable sticky keys because you
probably don't need them anyway.

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

Hopefully somone can offer me some help with this annoying problem I have
been having for months.

Basically my mouse's scroll wheel is intermittently acting as a back button
in internet explorer. i.e. If I try to scroll using the wheel, I jump back
to the last page I viewed. I'm using an a4tech wireless mouse and I don't
think it is a driver issue - as I quite happily used the same mouse and
driver for over a year (on XP) without any problems.

Win XP (SP2), A4Tech Wireless Mouse & Keyboard, IE 6.0.2800.1106.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks.

Could you be accidently pressing the scroll wheel instead of just
turning it? On some mice, it can act as another button if pressed.

 

[Jim Thompson]

I'm not pressing any keys or pressing the wheel button

 

[Dan McCoy]

FWIW, I'm experiencing the same problem on two systems with a Logitech
MX500 mouse. Yet on a third system, hooked up to the same KVM and mouse,
no problem. I've checked the accessibility settings and mouse settings.
They're identical on all systems. No Logitech drivers are installed and
the only common thing between the two 'flakey' systems is that the
Intellimouse drivers were installed at one time (oddly enough, the
Intellimouse Explorer does not exhibit this problem but I experience
another with the KVM in that the accelleration changes when switching
from KVM port to port. Switching to another and back usually restores
the accelleration.)

No clue as to what the solution would be. Right now, I'd rather have
this scroll wheel oddity and fluid mouse acceleration on port switches.


Dan