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Old 07-02-2009   #2 (permalink)
Benjamin Armstrong [MSFT]


 
 

Re: Mouse Wheel in VirtualPC Does Not Work

Have you changed any of the default mouse sensitivity in the host or the
virtual machine?

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JonStonecash wrote:
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> I have recently upgraded my Dell D620 Latitude laptop from WinXP Pro (32-bit)
> to Windows 7 RC (64-bit). I have a number of VirtualPC 2007 images that I use
> for testing on various platforms and looking at beta software. I have
> installed the 64-bit version of VirtualPC SP1. The images all work with the
> exception of the mouse wheel within the virtual machine. I have tried this
> out with WinXP Pro, Windows 7 RC, and Windows Server 2008 images. All are
> 32-bit and all exhibit the same behavior: a gentle rotation of the wheel does
> nothing; a quick rotation of the wheel sometimes gets a scroll and sometimes
> not. I regard this behavior as unusable as I tend to use the mouse wheel a
> lot.
>
> All of this worked just fine on WinXP. I have re-installed the Virtual
> Machine Additions on all of the machines. The Windows 7 RC virtual image was
> created after the upgrade to Windows 7 and the installation of the 64-bit
> version of VirtualPC (just to isolate the possibility that I had corrupted
> the images during the transition); the only software other than the 32-bit
> Widnows 7 RC are the virtual machine additions. The behavior of the mouse
> scroll wheel is the same as the other guest systems that I have tested.
>
> I have googled, binged, and yahoo-ed. There are scattered mentions of this
> problem (dating back to VPC 2004) but no solutions.
>
> I am aware that I could start up one of these images and then use remote
> desktop connections to get access to that image. I, in fact, do just that for
> some development that I am doing; the mouse works just fine. This is
> acceptable in this case because I spend hours at a time in the development
> VM. These test environments are different in that I will bring up an image
> for just a short time: minutes rather than hours. Adding the rdc step is much
> more significant in these cases.
>
> Does anyone have any idea of what to do next to get the scroll wheel to work?
>
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