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!

LUVMBDiesels · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 06-04-2009, 01:08 PM

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

Medmech · #8 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.

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!

Zeus · #12 06-05-2009, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by 280EZRider

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.

If you want some unsolicited advice...

...I would stay FAAAR away from Norton. Their home software is extremely pervasive (i.e. once you install it will be next to impossible to fully remove without a reformat) and it is quite resource intensive. Their corporate edition, which is server-side, is excellent. The home stuff...not so much.

I have been using AVG's free antivirus for a long time and it's proven to be reliable and it is easy on resources. Would definitely recommend it.

LUVMBDiesels · #13 06-05-2009, 09:20 AM

Zeus,

I fixed the issue by turning off tapping on my laptop touch pad. I don't like touch pads. I am used to the IBM track point.

As for Vista this is what I have

New Toshiba laptop

Fresh copy of Vista Ultimate 64 bit

Did the upgrade install from Vista Home.

Running AVG, OpenOffice, and Firefox

Vista has installed over 50 updates and seems to have settled down, but man for a while it was like running NT 3.5!

I have not even done anything but surf so far. I can't wait until I get into running office apps Monday

Zeus · #14 06-05-2009, 09:31 AM

Cool, glad that problem was fixed!

The clean install is a must, IMO, so it's good that was done. So many companies load a TON of proprietary crap onto boxed PCs and laptops. It usually just replicates existing Windows services and rebrands them - which eats up resources and CPU time.

One thing about Vista is that when it first boots up, memory usage will be slightly higher. After it has run a while (10-15 mins maybe), Vista caches a lot of services and optimizes itself. With all active apps closed, my PC usually runs at about 22-26% background RAM usage. This is with 3GB DDR.

Not sure how much memory you have in your laptop, but I would max it out. This is one area that really helps with Vista. It's a complex system, it needs a decent platform to run on. 2GB should be minimum. I use 3 as that is the practical max for a 32-bit system. With 64-bit you could use even more - provided your system's hardware can map more than 4GB of memory resources. Since memory is so cheap right now, I'd max it right out.

If you know all this already, please disregard.

280EZRider · #15 06-05-2009, 06:40 PM

I like the idea of turning off the tapping option; it's in the keyboard option of the control panel, right?

I used AVG free edition a while back and was told that it was OK but not the best. Then a computer guy suggested Norton. So far, I have had no problem with it, user friendly, and doesn't slow down things like Mcafee does.

I have a Gateway laptop with Vista that I updated to 2gig ram as soon as I got it. I just wish the processor, which is just 1.3 gig were larger. If you want fast, both ram and processor need to be addressed. I recently had a clone desk top built with 2 gig ram and 3 gig dual core pentium processor and it cooks! That's the one I'm running Norton on. And since I had the option, it has XP home.

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