X-Mouse and PowerToy - in England?

[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?
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Andrew Brydon
Life is just the beta-version of death

[siljaline]

"Andrew Brydon" > wrote:
> 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?

http://aumha.org/a/powertoy.htm

HTH

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

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[Joan Archer]

Lets hope it stays that side <g>
Joan

siljaline wrote:
>
>
> Regards from a frigid eastern Canada.... <brrrrr>

[siljaline]

"Joan Archer" > wrote:
> Lets hope it stays that side <g>
> Joan

Hi Joan,

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

~Silj

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[Andrew Brydon]

Once upon a time, siljaline > wrote
>
>"Andrew Brydon" > wrote:
>> 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?
>
>http://aumha.org/a/powertoy.htm
>
>HTH

Sorry - the page doesn't seem to address this issue at all
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Andrew Brydon
Life is just the beta-version of death

[siljaline]

"Andrew Brydon" > wrote:
<snip>
> Sorry - the page doesn't seem to address this issue at all
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> Andrew Brydon

Andrew,
Apologies for the erroneous information, I've taken the liberty
of forwarding your query to several other MVP's.


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[Alex Nichol]

Andrew Brydon wrote:

>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'.

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'


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Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[siljaline]

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
...
> Andrew Brydon wrote:
>
> >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'.
>
> 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 MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

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


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