Re: RE: IntelliPoint 6.1 + Vista = Erratic Scrolling?

Well i have the exact same problem with my intellimouse explorer for
bluetooth, the scroll wheel behaviour was so bad i had to uninstall
intellipoint

"t" wrote:
> I'm trying like the devil to install the 8000 mouse with
> bluetooth... Vista
> Enterprise RTM won't recognize the USB radio... no drivers...
> so testing with
> the latest Intellipoint isn't happening...
>
> Anyone got any thoughts on where the bluetooth drivers are ?
> or how to
> trick Vista into using a widcomm driver or something ??
>
> thanks... t
>
> "Jeff Billimek" wrote:
>
> > I'm having the same problem. What a buggy release!
> >
> > I found that I can temporarily correct the problem by
> killing ipoint.exe
> > from task manager and then restarting it by opening the
> mouse properties
> > (which spawns ipoint.exe). Oh, by the way, if you put the
> computer to sleep
> > and wake up again, scrolling will be screwed up again.
> >
> > This, combined with the still-not-fixed bug of the wireless
> receiver 3.0A
> > models preventing the display from going to sleep or
> screensaver activating,
> > is extremely disappointing and disturbing considering that
> this is Microsoft
> > hardware on a Microsoft operating system.
> >
> > "Jacob W. Klein" wrote:
> >
> > > I recently installed:
> > >
> > > Vista IntelliPoint 6.1 (6.10.156.0) ... for my
> > > Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0 ....... on
> > > Windows Vista RTM
> > >
> > > The problem I'm having is that vertical scrolling seems
> messed up. In order
> > > to trigger the OS into scrolling, it requires me to scroll
> more than I should
> > > need to.
> > >
> > > That being said, an example is that if I just scroll the
> wheel slowly, the
> > > OS never recognizes it as a scroll, and nothing happens.
> Expected behavior
> > > would be for the system to recognize a slow scroll (just
> like prior
> > > IntelliPoint releases)
> > >
> > > Also, I cannot get the scroll speed and acceleration
> settings to work the
> > > way I would like them to, either. It's strange; it seems
> like different
> > > applications scroll at different rates and accelerations;
> expected behavior
> > > would be that the settings work regardless of which
> application is running
> > > (just like prior IntelliPoint releases) ... and no I don't
> have any
> > > application-specific settings.
> > >
> > > Am I alone in noticing this erratic vertical scrolling
> with the latest
> > > release?
> > >
> > > PS: Haven't tested horizontal scrolling at all yet.

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