X-Mouse and PowerToy - in England?

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Andrew Brydon

I've just acquired a notebook with WinXP.
Net research shows I need to turn off X-Mouse to save my sanity,
which seems to be done via PowerToys.

At http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/downloads/powertoys.asp
it claims to only work with 'US-English regional settings'.

Is this just due to lack of testing and liabilities, and actually will
work fine or does it really condemn the rest of us, including me in
'UK (English)' to suffering the X-Mouse horror?
 
Andrew Brydon said:
I've just acquired a notebook with WinXP.
Net research shows I need to turn off X-Mouse to save my sanity,
which seems to be done via PowerToys.

At http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/downloads/powertoys.asp
it claims to only work with 'US-English regional settings'.

Is this just due to lack of testing and liabilities, and actually will
work fine or does it really condemn the rest of us, including me in
'UK (English)' to suffering the X-Mouse horror?
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http://aumha.org/a/powertoy.htm

HTH

Regards from a frigid eastern Canada.... <brrrrr>

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Joan Archer said:
Lets hope it stays that side <g>
Joan
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Hi Joan,

I'll send you some over along with a can of New Foundland Fog < vbg >

~Silj

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Andrew Brydon said:
Sorry - the page doesn't seem to address this issue at all
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Andrew,
Apologies for the erroneous information, I've taken the liberty
of forwarding your query to several other MVP's.


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Andrew said:
I've just acquired a notebook with WinXP.
Net research shows I need to turn off X-Mouse to save my sanity,
which seems to be done via PowerToys.

At http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/downloads/powertoys.asp
it claims to only work with 'US-English regional settings'.
Click to expand...

That is because that is the only regime it has been tested on; and it
really ought to say 'US-English version of Windows'. That version (as
opposed to International English) is the one usually found in the UK,
and the powertoys work fine for me on UK Regional settings. The real
matter is that if they were run in another language version of windows,
its messages would not be 'localised' to that language. But we can put
up with US spellings of 'color'
 
Alex Nichol said:
That is because that is the only regime it has been tested on; and it
really ought to say 'US-English version of Windows'. That version (as
opposed to International English) is the one usually found in the UK,
and the powertoys work fine for me on UK Regional settings. The real
matter is that if they were run in another language version of windows,
its messages would not be 'localised' to that language. But we can put
up with US spellings of 'color'
Click to expand...

Thanks for dropping by, Alex, cheers.
I sent JAE a note that you did.


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