Vista - Mouse troubles mainly after last Vista upgrade

Hi there,

It may be just a co-incidence, but last night I allowed the lastest windows patches to be installed and now I have fun with mouse related tasks. For example if I click on the speaker icondown next to the clock (standard screen layout), the volume then scrolls straight up to maximum with me touching it. The most annoying change is that when I try to print from the MS office button, the print control screen comes up as expected, but the number of copies scrolls up rapidly from 1 to hundreds.

I have also had trouble for a few days renaming files as when I select a file and do right mouse to rename and then click on the file name it opens the file rather than letting me do a rename.

I have Norton protection and ensure this is up to date.

Any ideas out there please!

Many thanks in anticipation

Regards,

Paul

Paul which mouse do you have? Is it a plug and play model or something with separate drivers?

If with separate drivers, you should be able to do a repair or uninstall and re-install it. You should also have device settings that you can regulate.

It might be because of two keyboard drivers in your computer.

Please go to device manager and click on the +sign on the keyboard and check whether there are more than one keyborad drivers showing there. Try uninstalling the second driver other than "Standard PS/2 Keyboard". and try to use the keyboard.

If yours is a wireless keyboard please re-install the driver from the installation CD/DVD from the manufacturer. You can do it with mouse alone.

Thanks for the two replies. I use 2 mice - the one built into the keyboard of my laptop and a second logitech wireless mouse. Both have been in use for some time so in themselves I cannot see a problem.

However today all seems to be ok, so somehow it has fixed itself! Hopefully it won't come back, but it would be good to understand what went wrong - I wonder if Microsoft slipped a correction in over night?

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Paul