Low battery warning - MS Wireless Optical Mouse (in XP)

This is not something that I've had a problem with previously but I suppose it could be a faulty Mouse. I had to have several Changed when I was first given the WiFi Mouse & Keyboard as they where doing some strange things and I'm now on the Version 5 Drivers which seem to work OK.

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The only other thing that I can think of is that if you installed the drivers off the M$ CD they have drivers for quite a few different Keyboards/Mice so maybe you installed the wrong driver for your unit.

Col

Many are not that bright, and if they believed the warning, they'd spend their life's savings buying batteries if they'd replace them every time a warning popped-up. It'd be much cheaper to go out and buy another brand of wireless mouse.

Not sure yet, but keeping fingers & toes crossed that maybe, the new driver from microsuck might have fixed it - but I don't wanna jinx anything by saying that either.

Thanks for your interest, and I'll post again whether or not my nightmare's gone away.

...still would be nice to simply choose whether or not I wanna be warned.

I notice you're from Australia. I'm Australian too. I left Townsville N.Qld in July'98 to meet-up with my internet fianc?. We were married on St. Patrick's day in 2000 and still going strong. We plan to return to Australia to live in about 5 years.

I just got my first "Low mouse battery warning" since installing the latest drivers from Microsuck.

Now, I REALLY REALLY have to turn off that Frikkin' Warning before I lose my mind.

There's GOTTA be a way, come on fellas!!!

I only had an HP wireless keyboard/mouse. The issue for me was the batteries being used. I was using recharges, and switching from different brands worked. Upon looking into it, some rechargeables are designed for different uses, and perform best like that.

Come to think of it, even the duracells I put in (the newer ones with the blue strip) caused this error often.
The problem is that the batteries are being made for more and more specific devices to function well, such as cameras, etc. which stay at a low charge and then take a big hit and go back to lower useage.
I have found that for recharges, I had better luck with the ray-o-vac 15 min than duracell 15-min (Duracell 15 min charges work great in cams but failed completely in mouse/keyboard).

So, if the driver is not the issue, try a different brand/type of battery. As for disabling the message, I cannot help.

The ussue is NOT dodgy or unsuitable batteries.

The Mouse control panel reports that the batteries are good, and that the signal strength is also good.

In the past, I have used Duracells, Recharg's (Ray-o-vac, duracell and eveready)), and I currently use the all purpose Heavy Duty Eveready Energizers.

The issue is NOT the batteries.

Somehow, the drivers & the software don't seem to be talking to eachother.

There MUST be a key in the Registry where the command to send a warning about low mouse batteries is sent from. I just want to turn it off. Please stay focussed on my real issue, I need to turn it off.

As much as I ALWAYS use the wheel button for double-click, I've had to cave-in and uninstall the intellimouse software.

That %@$#& warning is completely useless, and has driven me to breaking point. With perfect, STRONG batteries (of any breed or style), it still pops-up the low battery warning ALL TO OFTEN - I've had it... I'm done

Double click with your mouse just do this:
right click on the "empty" part of your tool bar and select "properties" go to Start menu > customize > Advance > folder and search options, in there you will be able to select "single click". I hope this helps you.

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.