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to: Gary Britt
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2007-01-01 18:44:56
subject: Re: Slow mouse in XP

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

I'd love to have the mouse speed-up info, as it will affect the TrackPoint
on the ThinkPad's I've got.  When connecting a mouse, it's fine, but since
I presume, the same setting will affect both.

Thanks.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:4599851e{at}w3.nls.net...
> Am I only one of two people in the universe that felt the mouse in XP was
> slow.  Too slow, and not able to be set fast enough (i.e., as fast as the
> same mouse works in Win2K)?
>
> I also think the same thing of the keyboard repeat rates which can't
> repeat as fast in XP as they do in Win2K.
>
> I have found the cure for pokey mouse.  No acceptable cure yet for the
> keyboard repeat rate.  The pokey mouse was far more annoying than the the
> almost but not quite fast enough keyboard repeat rate XP problem, so at
> least I've got a solution to that one.
>
> I was amazed when doing research on this issue that there were plenty of
> people looking for a way to disable and eliminate XP's built in mouse
> acceleration curves(for game playing apparently), but only one other
> person in the universe looking to speed up XP's built in mouse
> acceleration curves. Fortunately, I did find that one other person and he
> had the answers that I needed to build appropriate registry modifications.
>
> Anyone else want the cure for XP pokey mouse?
>
> Gary

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