Wheel Mouse Problem

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Bob

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.
 
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 said:
I am running Win2K/SP4.
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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.
Click to expand...
With one application (Free Agent 1.21/32) the wheel used to work. But
recently it sometimes does not scroll the page.
Click to expand...
 
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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