STUPID VISTA: A question... - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

LUVMBDiesels · #1 06-04-2009, 06:00 AM

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

MTI · #2 06-04-2009, 06:51 AM

Time Traveller

Restarting

Vista Help Page

BTW, the only reason I'm up is that I'm installing OS X Leopard on my Dell Mini . . . Hackintosh!

OldPokey · #3 06-04-2009, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by MTI

BTW, the only reason I'm up is that I'm installing OS X Leopard on my Dell Mini . . . Hackintosh!

I run Linux (Xubuntu 9.04) - no hacks required!

MTI · #4 06-04-2009, 01:07 PM

I gave Jaunty Jackalope an audition . . . ran into issues with the wifi, so now OS X 10.5.7 is up at bat.

Mistress · #5 06-04-2009, 01:08 PM

hummm the words stupid and Vista in the same sentence....hope you can get it worked out.

Medmech · #6 06-04-2009, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MTI

I gave Jaunty Jackalope an audition . . . ran into issues with the wifi, so now OS X 10.5.7 is up at bat.

Whoa whoa whoa, it's apparent that you know what you're doing but in my experience a simple restart usually clears the wifi issue up.

LUVMBDiesels · #7 06-04-2009, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by MTI

Time Traveller

Restarting

Vista Help Page

BTW, the only reason I'm up is that I'm installing OS X Leopard on my Dell Mini . . . Hackintosh!

Thanks, But the help page was NOT HELPFUL (imagine that!) Loved the Youtubes... If I could I would run Linux on this bad boy exclusively can't for work

LUVMBDiesels · #8 06-04-2009, 01:40 PM

VISTA BLUE SCREEN/FREEZE UPDATE:

Blue Screens of Death (BSD) 4
Freeze/reboots 6

Whoo Hoo Vista Rocks!!!!

remember this is on a brand new 4GB ram dual core machine...

MTI · #9 06-04-2009, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Medmech

Whoa whoa whoa, it's apparent that you know what you're doing but in my experience a simple restart usually clears the wifi issue up.

Yup, been there & done that, but since the install of Leopard went well and "Airport" seems reliable, it must have been an issue with the software driver rather than hardware.

That's not to say that I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, I still am. Intrepid and Jaunty are great products.

280EZRider · #10 06-04-2009, 04:04 PM

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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

I'm currious to know if you are using the built-in laptop mouse or a hand mouse. I, too, am stuck with vista, although it seems to occasionally take breaks from freezing up. Mcafee's constant scanning & updating doesn't make it work any faster either, so I may dump it for Norton, which is on the desk computer and much friendlier. So.....if you are using the laptop mouse, the problem may lie there. I have found that just moving a finger across the pad many times is mistaken for a click. Those things are extremely sensitive.

LUVMBDiesels · #11 06-04-2009, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by 280EZRider

I'm currious to know if you are using the built-in laptop mouse or a hand mouse. I, too, am stuck with vista, although it seems to occasionally take breaks from freezing up. Mcafee's constant scanning & updating doesn't make it work any faster either, so I may dump it for Norton, which is on the desk computer and much friendlier. So.....if you are using the laptop mouse, the problem may lie there. I have found that just moving a finger across the pad many times is mistaken for a click. Those things are extremely sensitive.

Yep I think you are right. I am going to turn of 'tapping' and see it it helps.

Thanks!

MTI · #12 06-04-2009, 05:05 PM

Last week I helped a friend with his new Vista powered HP box from Costco . . . interesting.

1) We tried the "Easy File Transfer" method via a wired network to get the settings from the older HP P4 tower running XP . . . that failed (kept crashing) and I wasn't going to hack up or buy a USB transfer cable . . . so, instead I ended up creating and importing PST files (mail, contacts, etc) and redoing all the settings manually.

2) No Vista drivers or support software for his HP flatbed scanner . . .

3) Property management software not Vista compliant, so we had to create an XP partition to dual boot.

I had to laugh that the HP comes with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse.

JonL · #13 06-04-2009, 05:57 PM

If nothing is as expensive as a cheap Mercedes, maybe the second most expensive thing is a cheap PC. (Trolling for PawoSD here....)

Gurkha · #14 06-05-2009, 03:47 AM

Try updating your video driver to see if this goes away, also it could be your security apps causing this scenario.

Either way, consider switching to XP or Ubuntu.

LUVMBDiesels · #15 06-05-2009, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Gurkha

Try updating your video driver to see if this goes away, also it could be your security apps causing this scenario.

Either way, consider switching to XP or Ubuntu.

Unfortunately This laptop cannot use XP (no drivers) and I need to be on Vista for work for now... I think that shutting off 'tapping' on the laptop fixed the issue...

Has anybody tried a dual boot Vista/Linux setup? I would like to do this but I remember what a PITA it was setting up SuSe/XP a couple years ago.