Windows Update borks my mouse ... AGAIN

[Brian Stirling]

For about the fourth or fifth time a laptop, running Windows, and using a Microsoft wireless mouse, has had the scroll wheel borked after a Windows update. I don't know how or why M$ continues to screw this up but it's really annoying me. What happens is, after an update, the way the scroll wheel operates is entirely different. That is, I tend to want the page to scroll about 1/3 page with each click/detent of the scroll wheel but after yesterdays update it now goes from the top of the page to the bottom with a single click.

This has happened on more than one laptop over the last 3-4 years, but it doesn't happen with every update -- maybe about 10% of the updates, perhaps less than that. Still, how do they continue to screw things up -- it's there OS and there mouse!

FTR, I have a "Lenovo T530" with a "Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000" and am running "Windows 7 Pro".


Brian

 

[G73S]

Logitech Mice FTW

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Was there a driver in that update? Never heard of updates messing up a mouse before!

 

[Mushkins]

Sounds like some other software is messing with your mouse settings, more than likely it's the touchpad drivers/controller software.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Here's the weird thing...

I went into control panel/hardware/mouse and changed the wheel setting to 1 as the number of lines at a time and that changed the scroll to about 2/3 screen per detent of the wheel. Sometime later I noticed the scroll speed was a lot less so I went back to control panel and changed the wheel setting back to 3 lines at a time and now the wheel is back to where it was before. I've not rebooted or done anything to cause something to be reloaded.

Oh well...


Brian

 

[Virgorising]

To me, sounds as if the issue centers in yr wireless setup and not the mouse per se. What happens when you use a wired mouse?

 

[Brian Stirling]

To me, sounds as if the issue centers in yr wireless setup and not the mouse per se. What happens when you use a wired mouse?

Don't have a wired mouse...

I've had this mouse for a number of years now so it may well be something to do with the mouse and it's driver, but, then again, this is a M$ mouse and the problem seem to only happen after a Windows update.

Maybe I'll just replace the mouse, but other than this occasional wheel issue it's worked just fine.


Brian

 

[Virgorising]

Don't have a wired mouse...

I like avoiding problems, so I choose wired peripherals. But that's just me.

I've had this mouse for a number of years now so it may well be something to do with the mouse and it's driver, but, then again, this is a M$ mouse and the problem seem to only happen after a Windows update.

In this event that correlation doesn't imply causation presents. I think that it is an MS mouse and you correlate the issue to updates may not be viable.

Maybe I'll just replace the mouse, but other than this occasional wheel issue it's worked just fine.

Absolutely agree!