A more serius question about mice?

kobaj

kobaj

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Ya the loading thread was fun but now I got a few more questions.

1. Whenever I press ctrl on my keyboard, my mouse suddenly has rings around it. Now I have done my research and have found out it is for "finding my mouse pointer". Well its pissing me off, I have googled and found a couple of guides stating to go into my control panel>mouse and then tab over to someting and then there would be a button "when ctrl is pressed find mouse". One problem, there isnt that tab, or that button. None, enywhere in my mouse settings. So is there anther place I can turn this annoing "mouse finder" off? Oh and I have windows xp.

2. Christmas is comming up and for a gift for my brother I was looking for a nice keyboard and mouse. The problem, he is a gamer but he needs a wireless one. Are there eny good wireless gaming keyboards and mice for about 50 bucks. I know there probibly isnt much for that price but it doesnt hurt to ask.

Thanks.
 
1. Whenever I press ctrl on my keyboard, my mouse suddenly has rings around it. Now I have done my research and have found out it is for "finding my mouse pointer". Well its pissing me off, I have googled and found a couple of guides stating to go into my control panel>mouse and then tab over to someting and then there would be a button "when ctrl is pressed find mouse". One problem, there isnt that tab, or that button. None, enywhere in my mouse settings. So is there anther place I can turn this annoing "mouse finder" off? Oh and I have windows xp.
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do you have a driver installed for your mouse? i had a driver installed for my logitech optical mouse, and it messed up my mouse properties, so i uninstalled the driver and the properties returned to normal. maybe you could try doing this??
 
2. Christmas is comming up and for a gift for my brother I was looking for a nice keyboard and mouse. The problem, he is a gamer but he needs a wireless one. Are there eny good wireless gaming keyboards and mice for about 50 bucks. I know there probibly isnt much for that price but it doesnt hurt to ask.
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hmm there are probably no good wireless gaming mice for under 50. i may be wrong tho. they only good wireless gaming mice i can think of is the logitech g7(its a wireless mouse thats ment for gaming) and thats $100 retail but $74 on newegg. and as for keyboard really any is good as long as its comfortable but you would have to worry about it being wireless becuase its not too reliable.
 
shupola said:
do you have a driver installed for your mouse? i had a driver installed for my logitech optical mouse, and it messed up my mouse properties, so i uninstalled the driver and the properties returned to normal. maybe you could try doing this??
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Yes it is logitech drivers that are messing it up, but when I try and unistall them the original mouse screen does not return just the logitech one.

shupola said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823126156
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823126175

i found these two. the second is a little over budget though, but still a good price.
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I do like logitech, I am using the "logitech click!" at the moment and I enjoy it. Although I think he likes squarer(?) keyboards and more "hand shaped" mice than the LX300. :D
 
Yes it is logitech drivers that are messing it up, but when I try and unistall them the original mouse screen does not return just the logitech one.
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did you go to add/remove program and uninstall logitech Mouseware?
 
shupola said:
did you go to add/remove program and uninstall logitech Mouseware?
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OMG, I was trying to do it through device manager, why didnt I think of that. Thank you its fixed now.

With the keyboard, I was looking at newegg and saw this one, It appears to be what he would like. But how much would it be non refurbished? Enyone had eny experiance with this one? Is there something like it cheaper?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823150010R
EDIT: Its looking to be on the exspencive side ($70-$90). That LX300 is looking better and better, except the mouse looks uncomfortable.
 
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why don't you just go into mouse properties and turn off that feature!?

please tell me you thought of that already and it wasn't available
 
Keyboard: (toss the mouse)
http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...130&pfp=BROWSE
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i had a micro inovations mouse one time, and it kept screwing up on me. idk if the keyboard will mess up, but my mouse would jump around the screen everyfew minutes and then i would not be able to move it and all of my open windows would be minimized. since i coulnt move the mouse, i had to unplug it, and use my touchpad to go into mouse properties and reset the device. it was a real pain in the neck.

another thing is that if you get them seperate, they will take up two usb ports instead of one.
 
I think your blind, the thing to turn on and off ctril t o fine your mouse is right in themouse propterys in your control panel...



HEre's what you do, go to control panel, mouse, then there is a tab that says pointer options, and its the bottom none, there is a checkbox for it. this is in XP
 
Xycron said:
I think your blind, the thing to turn on and off ctril t o fine your mouse is right in themouse propterys in your control panel...



HEre's what you do, go to control panel, mouse, then there is a tab that says pointer options, and its the bottom none, there is a checkbox for it. this is in XP
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but with the logitech mouseware drivers installed, it changes the whole look of that window. and his problem has already been fixed.

kobaj said:
OMG, I was trying to do it through device manager, why didnt I think of that. Thank you its fixed now.
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Thank you shupola for settings things strait, as for the keyboard. Thats odd, it says its made by micro inovations yet its an HP. Hehe. Oh well it looks to be a stong keyboard. Thanks.

EDIT: Oh and am I the only one who uses there ps2 ports enymore, I like the adaptors. ( I have a million of them, hehe. )
 
EDIT: Oh and am I the only one who uses there ps2 ports enymore, I like the adaptors. ( I have a million of them, hehe. )
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well, my laptop only has one, and it is on the side where i use the mouse, so it kinda gets in the way.
 
Oh and am I the only one who uses there ps2 ports enymore, I like the adaptors. ( I have a million of them, hehe.
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PS/2 ports are probably going to be phased out since USB is so much more general purpose than the PS/2 ports were. USB can be used for anything that doesn't require too much power and doesn't need a huge bandwidth pipe (External HDDs are kindof an exeption but there is always firewire for the more demanding components).
 
Well my computer has ps/2 and I'm gonna have it for a while, thats all that matters. Anywho we didnt go shopping when planned so instead of that mouse and keyboard. I just went to radioshack/walmart and picked up a compac mouse and a different micro inovations keyboard. I will let my brother try them out tonight and if they dont work then I will have that 90 day money back thing. :D I feel trial and error is a little better way of getting a good set than just reading reviews and what not.
 
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