Hybrid mouse: USB or PS/2?

OvenMaster

OvenMaster

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My Microsoft Optical Mouse Blue can be connected either to a PS/2 mouse port with an included adapter or a USB port. My question is which is the better method or place? I've been using it on a USB port for a while and it seems okay... I do notice using CoolBeans monitor that just moving the cursor around can make CPU usage go up to 20%. I tried it for a while on the PS/2 port and about one-third of the time, Windows would not see any mouse in the Device Manager and I would have to reboot.

Any thoughts, please? Thanks.

Tom
 
I always prefer USB, mainly because my mice have always had extra buttons on the side, sensitivity control, etc. that go along with them, and if you use the PS/2 connector then those features will not work.

However if you're just using the average two-button mouse with scroll wheel, either one is fine I'd say.
 
I know my PS/2 port is partially broken.
Thats why i use USB. I have to wiggle it around or pull it out and reinsert it if i want to us ps/2
 
I use PS2. I like having spare USB ports, also when I was installing windows I couldn't use them with USB. Later I found out I needed to adjust my bios. But to get into the bios I needed a PS2 keyboard!
 
usb is better in my opinion, mainly because my mouse and keyboard use it stock, so it must be better lol :rolleyes:
 
fortyways said:
If you plug in a keyboard via PS/2, it makes that obnoxious beep when you press three buttons at once.
Click to expand...

OOO thats why.
At school about half the computers make the obnoxious beep (great fun in the library) and half dont. Could never figure that out.

Thanks
 
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