Mouse and Keyboard Property windows

May 21, 2008

I'm having a problem with the mouse and keyboard property windows. I have a

Microsoft Wireless Desktop 1000(mouse is Wireless Optical Mouse

2000/keyboard is a Wireless Multimedia Keyboard). The property windows for

the mouse and keyboard open but the text is too large for the window

consequently the windows don't show all the text and some of the buttons

either show partially or not at all. The kicker is that this doesn't happen

with all the tabs. The mouse tabs that are affected are: Buttons, Scrolling,

Activities and Wireless. The keyboard tabs affected are: Key Settings and

Wireless. OS is WinXP Pro SP3. Mouse and keyboard drivers version are 6.2.

If I uninstall mouse and keyboard drivers and just use generic everything is

alright but I lose some of the features for the mouse and keyboard. I tried

uninstalling video drivers(NVidia latest ones) and just using VGA but the

problem is still there. I also used older video drivers but that didn't help

either. I'm not sure but this could have happened when SP3 was installed(I

don't get into the mouse/keyboard properties too often). I would appreciate

it if anyone else has seen this problem or if anybody has a fix for this.

Greg T

May 21, 2008

Re: Mouse and Keyboard Property windows

On 21 May, 05:31, "Greg T" <gtyks...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm having a problem with the mouse and keyboard property windows. I have a

> Microsoft Wireless Desktop 1000(mouse is Wireless Optical Mouse

> 2000/keyboard is a Wireless Multimedia Keyboard). The property windows for

> the mouse and keyboard open but the text is too large for the window

> consequently the windows don't show all the text and some of the buttons

> either show partially or not at all. The kicker is that this doesn't happen

> with all the tabs. The mouse tabs that are affected are: Buttons, Scrolling,

> Activities and Wireless. The keyboard tabs affected are: Key Settings and

> Wireless. OS is WinXP Pro SP3. Mouse and keyboard drivers version are 6.2.

> If I uninstall mouse and keyboard drivers and just use generic everything is

> alright but I lose some of the features for the mouse and keyboard. I tried

> uninstalling video drivers(NVidia latest ones) and just using VGA but the

> problem is still there. I also used older video drivers but that didn't help

> either. I'm not sure but this could have happened when SP3 was installed(I

> don't get into the mouse/keyboard properties too often). I would appreciate

> it if anyone else has seen this problem or if anybody has a fix for this.

> Greg T

I get that with some windows, e.g. SUPER by eRightSoft..

if the screen resolution is like 640x480.

the trick is to make the resolution higher.

800x600 might cut it . If not, then higher than that.

But for the odd window, you could unlock the taskbar (the bar with the

start menu), and then move the mouse over it such that you get a

resize cursor, and then shink the taskbar so it's just a little line

on the bottom of the screen. That can free up some space. Enough for

you to see the buttons. Once you have done your thing you can size

the taskbar back to proper size.

Another thing you could do, is tab through, to go through the buttons,

and press space bar to push them. You can figure out if the button

you just pushed was OK or Cancel. And tab probably goes through them

from left to right anyway.

Another thing that might work is if your monitor has buttons to move

the screen up. These buttons might be within a menu on the monitor

screen. Or they might be physical buttons on the monitor

May 21, 2008

Re: Mouse and Keyboard Property windows

It's not the desktop space that is crowded the actual window is too small

for all the content and unfortunately the properties window is not

resizable(no click, hold and drag to make the window bigger). Thanks for

your input anyway. Anybody else have any ideas. I think it is a bug in SP3

or Microsoft Intellipoint and Intellitype software or a combination of

both(SP3 and software). Greg t

<jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

news:c92fe131-b84c-4142-807f-61e1a1c6339c@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> On 21 May, 05:31, "Greg T" <gtyks...@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

>> I'm having a problem with the mouse and keyboard property windows. I have

>> a

>> Microsoft Wireless Desktop 1000(mouse is Wireless Optical Mouse

>> 2000/keyboard is a Wireless Multimedia Keyboard). The property windows

>> for

>> the mouse and keyboard open but the text is too large for the window

>> consequently the windows don't show all the text and some of the buttons

>> either show partially or not at all. The kicker is that this doesn't

>> happen

>> with all the tabs. The mouse tabs that are affected are: Buttons,

>> Scrolling,

>> Activities and Wireless. The keyboard tabs affected are: Key Settings and

>> Wireless. OS is WinXP Pro SP3. Mouse and keyboard drivers version are

>> 6.2.

>> If I uninstall mouse and keyboard drivers and just use generic everything

>> is

>> alright but I lose some of the features for the mouse and keyboard. I

>> tried

>> uninstalling video drivers(NVidia latest ones) and just using VGA but the

>> problem is still there. I also used older video drivers but that didn't

>> help

>> either. I'm not sure but this could have happened when SP3 was

>> installed(I

>> don't get into the mouse/keyboard properties too often). I would

>> appreciate

>> it if anyone else has seen this problem or if anybody has a fix for this.

>> Greg T

>

> I get that with some windows, e.g. SUPER by eRightSoft..

> if the screen resolution is like 640x480.

> the trick is to make the resolution higher.

> 800x600 might cut it . If not, then higher than that.

>

> But for the odd window, you could unlock the taskbar (the bar with the

> start menu), and then move the mouse over it such that you get a

> resize cursor, and then shink the taskbar so it's just a little line

> on the bottom of the screen. That can free up some space. Enough for

> you to see the buttons. Once you have done your thing you can size

> the taskbar back to proper size.

> Another thing you could do, is tab through, to go through the buttons,

> and press space bar to push them. You can figure out if the button

> you just pushed was OK or Cancel. And tab probably goes through them

> from left to right anyway.

> Another thing that might work is if your monitor has buttons to move

> the screen up. These buttons might be within a menu on the monitor

> screen. Or they might be physical buttons on the monitor

>

May 21, 2008

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