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July 1, 2003 at 11:31 PM
frstdone

Keyboard and Mouse Problems

by frstdone . Updated 23 years ago

I?m having two problems with my mouse I hope someone can help me with. The first problem is that when I click on the ?start? menu and select ?programs,? I can no longer right click to bring up the menu that starts with ?open? and ends with ?properties.? Most importantly to me, I can no longer ?sort by name.? I tried using my keyboard instead, thinking it was a problem with the mouse but that won?t work either. I can right click anywhere else on the computer and use the keyboard to bring up menus without a problem. I?ve tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them. I?ve tried removing the mouse physically and I?ve also uninstalled and reinstalled the Intellimouse software. Nothing seems to work.

The other problem I have iswith my wheel. Whenever I restart or cold boot the computer, I can only scroll one line at a time no matter how many times I change this to a different number in the control panel. I have uninstalled and reinstalled both the drivers and Intellimouse software and that doesn?t help.

I?m running a PIII Gateway Solo 9550 with Windows XP Professional and am using a Microsoft optical wheel mouse. I?ve made no changes to my system before these problems began occurring. Please help.

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