Win8 mouse
Sort of a followup to my earlier post, but with a
different issue. I got a new SSD for the Asus I asked about earlier. Windows installed without problem, although it refused to allow MBR partitions on a UEFI machine. Not a big deal, but I would have liked to have stayed with the old system for better compatibility. The install found the Product key, which I copied using Produkey, just in case it's needed later. But the BIOS-embedded key seems to work fine, as Paul predicted. Now there's just one issue. I'm not sure if it's Windows or a hardware glitch, but I seem to be getting a focus-follows-mouse behavior. Selections change with hover. Lingering over an item for a few seconds becomes an involuntary click. I don't see any related options in the mouse settings applet. Is there another place where that might be controlled? Or is it maybe a funky mousepad? (This is a laptop and my experience with those is very limited, so I don't know whether such malfunctions are common.) Also, thanks to those who suggested Classic Shell. That saved me so much trouble. An effortless Metro-killer. I then removed the "Windows Store" from the taskbar and seem to be functionally free of Metro. |
Win8 mouse
Mayayana wrote:
Sort of a followup to my earlier post, but with a different issue. I got a new SSD for the Asus I asked about earlier. Windows installed without problem, although it refused to allow MBR partitions on a UEFI machine. Not a big deal, but I would have liked to have stayed with the old system for better compatibility. The install found the Product key, which I copied using Produkey, just in case it's needed later. But the BIOS-embedded key seems to work fine, as Paul predicted. Now there's just one issue. I'm not sure if it's Windows or a hardware glitch, but I seem to be getting a focus-follows-mouse behavior. Selections change with hover. Lingering over an item for a few seconds becomes an involuntary click. I don't see any related options in the mouse settings applet. Is there another place where that might be controlled? Or is it maybe a funky mousepad? (This is a laptop and my experience with those is very limited, so I don't know whether such malfunctions are common.) Also, thanks to those who suggested Classic Shell. That saved me so much trouble. An effortless Metro-killer. I then removed the "Windows Store" from the taskbar and seem to be functionally free of Metro. It says here the "focus follows mouse" is an Ease Of Access tick box. https://winaero.com/blog/turn-on-xmo...and-windows-7/ https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/.../01/Xmouse.png Paul |
Win8 mouse
"Paul" wrote
| It says here the "focus follows mouse" is an Ease Of Access | tick box. | | https://winaero.com/blog/turn-on-xmo...and-windows-7/ | Thanks. That must e what used to be called accessibility. I hadn't thought of that as an accessibility function. |
Win8 mouse
"Paul" wrote
| It says here the "focus follows mouse" is an Ease Of Access | tick box. | Well, it was a good guess, but it doesn't seem to work. Reading online it looks like this may be a bug. One place suggests adjusting ActiveWndTrkTimeout in the Registry. I did that, setting it to 20 seconds. No luck. In any case, I should need to adjust the time it takes for mouse to grab focus if I haven't enabled that functionality in the first place. Maybe I have a faulty mouse pad, but it seems to be a Windows problem. I have to be careful to stop the mouse only on neutral areas. Otherwise I'm likely to inadvertently click a button, open a file, or change a setting. |
Win8 mouse
Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote | It says here the "focus follows mouse" is an Ease Of Access | tick box. | Well, it was a good guess, but it doesn't seem to work. Reading online it looks like this may be a bug. One place suggests adjusting ActiveWndTrkTimeout in the Registry. I did that, setting it to 20 seconds. No luck. In any case, I should need to adjust the time it takes for mouse to grab focus if I haven't enabled that functionality in the first place. Maybe I have a faulty mouse pad, but it seems to be a Windows problem. I have to be careful to stop the mouse only on neutral areas. Otherwise I'm likely to inadvertently click a button, open a file, or change a setting. According to this, there are two behaviors possible. The GUI X-Mouse option, brings the window to the front. But attacking it from the Registry, allows a window to stay behind, yet accept keyboard input. So it's got the focus, but without being raised. That's the registry stuff in Option Three. https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ve-enable.html I don't know what else to do to fix this, as I can't imagine fiddling with mice, deleting a mouse and having it re-discovered, would make any difference. It's not likely to be a per-device setting, and instead just works off general HID input (any mouse). Since all plugged-in mice drive the cursor position at the same time, installing a new mouse should not disturb the setting. Since the Registry area they're working in is HKCU Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "ActiveWndTrackTimeout"=dword:00000096 "UserPreferencesMask"=hex:9f,3e,07,80,12,00,00 ,00 you could also try changing accounts and see if the annoying behavior is gone. It should be a per-profile behavior, at a guess. Paul |
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