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Originally Posted by LUVMBDiesels
I have a question about mouse behavior in Vista. When I hold the mouse over a something like a thread in SF or a choice in a dialog box it seems to wait 3 seconds and then choose the option as if I had hit the left button on the mouse. I do NOT want this to happen, but I cannot find a way to turn it off... I am not happy with this. Can anybody here tell me how to make the mouse behave like it did in XP?
Thanks!
Oh By the way Vista has only frozen twice and blue screened once on my brand new laptop  |
Try and update all drivers. Was this a hand held mouse or laptop touch screen? Not sure if you answered that?
I'm still puzzled with the Vista bashing. I'm running two home PCs with Vista (Ultimate and Home Pro) and ZERO issues. My personal PC has been running it since it came out now and it hasn't crashed once. It's been the most stable Windows platform I've used since 3.1
My extended family members' PCs also run Vista (and I maintain these for them), and again - no problems at all.
There are a lot of settings in Vista that can be modified to make it run smoothly and with less resource use, if you so choose. My wife's PC I've left Vista more or less as is in terms of default settings, so that it updates itself constantly, the UAC control is on, etc.
With my PC, I do some gaming, etc. so I have Vista tweaked where I control most aspects, including updating, backups, scans, etc.
There are some excellent features bundled with Vista, like Defender's ability to screen all running processes and block/stop certain ones.
I use the Windows Firewall and AVG's free anti-virus. Have not had a single virus/trojan/malware on this PC install ever.
I am guessing many problems come with PCs that were not setup correctly, or the installation process was not complete, or controlled. I don't trust PCs out of the box, where proprietary software has been installed - e.g. Dell, HP. They load a lot of their crap on the PC and it just slows it down, IMO. Completely useless software and all for branding/marketing purposes and not user benefit.
If you can, I would install a clean copy of Vista on a formatted drive (Vista setup will do this for you, no need to preformat). If you do so, then perform regular Windows Updates and driver updates on third party hardware like video cards, you should be able to have a very stable and secure system.
All IMHO.
