snap to default button naughtiness

**Khayman** · October 28th, 2002

That really annoying option of having your mouse pointer snap to the default button is stuck on on my machine.

It is set to off in the mouse options in control panel
and i have searched the registry for SnapToDefaultButton and they are all set to 0
anyone got any other ideas?

**Glaanieboy** · October 28th, 2002

Reinstall your mouse drivers. Simple, but effective. Make sure you restart your computer after the uninstall to delete any filefragments in the memeory.Windows should install standard drivers after the restart.

October 28th, 2002

Also, just check to make sure you don't have more than one mouse driver loading (ie, if you use a non-MS mouse it's possible both the MS driver and OEM driver are loading). Though it's not a common occurrence, I've seen it happen more than once.

**Khayman** · October 28th, 2002

didn't work, deleted drivers, rebooted, came back installed drivers automatically, same probelm

**Khayman** · October 28th, 2002

done it now. installed some new software from the manufactures instead of ****e from MS Update

cheers guys

October 28th, 2002

Never, NEVER use Windows update as your source for hardware drivers. When MS certifies drivers they frequently disable many of the advanced features built in by the OEM because MS feels they may - MAY - not interact well with some MS feature (frequently obscure). More often than not, nobody would ever be effected - but MS is very conservative with OEM drivers.

October 28th, 2002	Top \| #1
Khayman I'm sorry Hal... Joined: January 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,514 Reputation: 1210 Power: 191	snap to default button naughtiness That really annoying option of having your mouse pointer snap to the default button is stuck on on my machine. It is set to off in the mouse options in control panel and i have searched the registry for SnapToDefaultButton and they are all set to 0 anyone got any other ideas? "I'm on the server side. I don't know what side you're on"

October 28th, 2002	Top \| #4
Khayman I'm sorry Hal... Joined: January 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,514 Reputation: 1210 Power: 191	didn't work, deleted drivers, rebooted, came back installed drivers automatically, same probelm "I'm on the server side. I don't know what side you're on"

October 28th, 2002	Top \| #5
Khayman I'm sorry Hal... Joined: January 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,514 Reputation: 1210 Power: 191	done it now. installed some new software from the manufactures instead of ***e from MS Update cheers guys "I'm* on the server side. I don't know what side you're on"

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October 28th, 2002	Top \| #2
Glaanieboy OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 2,626 Reputation: 270 Power: 150	Reinstall your mouse drivers. Simple, but effective. Make sure you restart your computer after the uninstall to delete any filefragments in the memeory.Windows should install standard drivers after the restart.

October 28th, 2002	Top \| #3
allan Unregistered Posts: n/a	Also, just check to make sure you don't have more than one mouse driver loading (ie, if you use a non-MS mouse it's possible both the MS driver and OEM driver are loading). Though it's not a common occurrence, I've seen it happen more than once.

October 28th, 2002	Top \| #6
allan Unregistered Posts: n/a	Never, NEVER use Windows update as your source for hardware drivers. When MS certifies drivers they frequently disable many of the advanced features built in by the OEM because MS feels they may - MAY - not interact well with some MS feature (frequently obscure). More often than not, nobody would ever be effected - but MS is very conservative with OEM drivers.