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Microsoft Mouse driver is unchanging
Using Win XP SP3, with a USB wired Basic Optical Mouse and year long
screen-saver issues. Despite previous advice to the contrary, my local techie has now advised me to replace the mouse and update the Microsoft mouse drive in the hope that these will rectify the year long, non-starting screen-saver. Borrowed another USB wired MS Basic Optical Mouse from a workmate and plugged it in but with no advantage in respect of the screen-saver. Checked the existing mouse driver at Start right click My Computer Properties Hardware tab Device Manager Mice and Other Pointing Devices right click HID-compliant mouse and reviewed General, Driver, Details, Power Management tabs. Driver: Microsoft Date: July 01, 2001 Version: 5.1.2600.0 Signer: MS Windows Component Publisher Using the Update driver tool, reveals that no better driver is available (online, or otherwise ???) My techie then advises me to download and install the latest MS IntelliPoint 7.0 software which I do. Although I choose to use all default settings, the screen-saver now starts as expected. Hooray! (Why? Don't really care, am just very glad and will now purchase a new MS mouse of my own.) My question then: When checking the mouse driver as before, as above, Windows XP shows that it has remained unchanged despite the installation of the IntelliPoint software which has an icon on the Desktop, an entry in the Start menu and an entry in the Add/Remove Programs tool. Why has the previous HID-compliant MS mouse drive remained unchanged? Sincerely, Richard Surrey, BC, Canada. |
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Microsoft Mouse driver is unchanging
On Oct 29, 3:39*pm, "Richard Roseweir" wrote:
Using Win XP SP3, with a USB wired Basic Optical Mouse and year long screen-saver issues. Despite previous advice to the contrary, my local techie has now advised me to replace the mouse and update the Microsoft mouse drive in the hope that these will rectify the year long, non-starting screen-saver. Borrowed another USB wired MS Basic Optical Mouse from a workmate and plugged it in but with no advantage in respect of the screen-saver. Checked the existing mouse driver at Start right click My Computer Properties Hardware tab Device Manager Mice and Other Pointing Devices * right click HID-compliant mouse and reviewed General, Driver, Details, Power Management tabs. Driver: Microsoft Date: July 01, 2001 Version: 5.1.2600.0 Signer: MS Windows Component Publisher Using the Update driver tool, reveals that no better driver is available (online, or otherwise ???) My techie then advises me to download and install the latest MS IntelliPoint 7.0 software which I do. Although I choose to use all default settings, the screen-saver now starts as expected. *Hooray! (Why? Don't really care, am just very glad and will now purchase a new MS mouse of my own.) My question then: When checking the mouse driver as before, as above, Windows XP shows that it has remained unchanged despite the installation of the IntelliPoint software which has an icon on the Desktop, an entry in the Start menu and an entry in the Add/Remove Programs tool. *Why has the previous HID-compliant MS mouse drive remained unchanged? Sincerely, Richard Surrey, BC, Canada. Microsoft has two versions of the mouse drivers. One is the default mouse driver that is delivered with XP and is not normally updated. This is a simple driver to provide mainly basic functions. The Intellipoint drivers are the enhanced drivers for the Microsoft branded mice. Once the Intellipoint drivers are installed, they "override" the default XP drivers. |
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Microsoft Mouse driver is unchanging
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I assume then, that if I uninstall the MS IntelliPoint 7.0 software ((and drivers), the original WinXP Mouse driver will remain providing the mouse with basic functionality. Likewise if I install yet another 3rd party, wired optical mouse, its driver will also over-ride that come with Win XP. And similarly, if this 3rd party mouse and its driver are ever uninstalled, the original Win XP mouse drivers will continue to provide the basic functionality. You indicate that the original Win XP mouse driver is not normally updated. Can it however, ever be removed? If so, how? Thanks, Richard "smlunatick" wrote in message ... Microsoft has two versions of the mouse drivers. One is the default mouse driver that is delivered with XP and is not normally updated. This is a simple driver to provide mainly basic functions. The Intellipoint drivers are the enhanced drivers for the Microsoft branded mice. Once the Intellipoint drivers are installed, they "override" the default XP drivers. |
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Microsoft Mouse driver is unchanging
On Oct 29, 7:51*pm, "Richard Roseweir" wrote:
Thanks for your prompt reply. I assume then, that if I uninstall the MS IntelliPoint 7.0 software ((and drivers), the original WinXP Mouse driver will remain providing the mouse with basic functionality. Likewise if I install yet another 3rd party, wired optical mouse, its driver will also over-ride that come with Win XP. *And similarly, if this 3rd party mouse and its driver are ever uninstalled, the original Win XP mouse drivers will continue to provide the basic functionality. You indicate that the original Win XP mouse driver is not normally updated. Can it however, ever be removed? If so, how? Thanks, Richard "smlunatick" wrote in message ... Microsoft has two versions of the mouse drivers. *One is the default mouse driver that is delivered with XP and is not normally updated. This is a simple driver to provide mainly basic functions. *The Intellipoint drivers are the enhanced drivers for the Microsoft branded mice. *Once the Intellipoint drivers are installed, they "override" the default XP drivers. I had a Microsoft mouse and installed the Intellipoint drivers for it. I was then changing to a Razer Lachesis ™ gaming grade mouse and the first thing the set up process was suggesting was to uninstall any other "enhanced" mouse drivers / software packages. This was to the fact that too many enhanced drivers software packages can interfere with each other. |
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Microsoft Mouse driver is unchanging
Why would you want to remove it? It is there so that you will have mouse
functionality should you need to uninstall any enhanced driver, such as intellipoint. "Richard Roseweir" wrote in message ... Thanks for your prompt reply. I assume then, that if I uninstall the MS IntelliPoint 7.0 software ((and drivers), the original WinXP Mouse driver will remain providing the mouse with basic functionality. Likewise if I install yet another 3rd party, wired optical mouse, its driver will also over-ride that come with Win XP. And similarly, if this 3rd party mouse and its driver are ever uninstalled, the original Win XP mouse drivers will continue to provide the basic functionality. You indicate that the original Win XP mouse driver is not normally updated. Can it however, ever be removed? If so, how? Thanks, Richard "smlunatick" wrote in message ... Microsoft has two versions of the mouse drivers. One is the default mouse driver that is delivered with XP and is not normally updated. This is a simple driver to provide mainly basic functions. The Intellipoint drivers are the enhanced drivers for the Microsoft branded mice. Once the Intellipoint drivers are installed, they "override" the default XP drivers. |
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Microsoft Mouse driver is unchanging
Now that I know better, and that it can in fact co-exist with an additional
enhanced driver, I would not want to uninstall it. [It does seem strange to me however that two drivers can be installed and not conflict with each other...as per many of the video and audio codecs that I need to contend with.] Additionally, although I'm delighted that my screen-saver now kicks in when it should, why did it require the newer IntelliPoint 7.0 software to do so? The original Windows XP default mouse driver, dated 2001, was apparently defective in this regard and it only took a year to figure this out. Thank you one and all for teaching me a little more about drivers. Sincerely, Richard Surrey, BC, Canada. "Jean Rosenfeld" wrote in message ... Why would you want to remove it? It is there so that you will have mouse functionality should you need to uninstall any enhanced driver, such as intellipoint. |
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