Vista - Mouse Wheel in VirtualPC Does Not Work

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?

--
Jon Stonecash

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

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JonStonecash wrote:

I have changed the mouse sensitivity in the guest Windows 7 system: there has
been no apparent effect: both ways have essential no scroll wheel
functionality. I have not changed the mouse sensitivity in the host 64-bit
Windows 7 system. that than the fact that I have installed the drivers for
the Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 (Vista 64-bit driver from the
Microsoft site), this is a fairly clean install.


--
Jon Stonecash


"Benjamin Armstrong [MSFT]" wrote:

I have the same problem with Virtual PC 2007 in Vista 64.

I have 3 mice on the PC. 2 of them work OK(wired Logitech mouse and wireless
Logitech trackball) and one has the problem (Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse
7000). This suggests it has something to do with interaction with the host
mouse driver.




"JonStonecash" wrote:

Well, my driver management and discovery utility, downloaded
Synaptics Pointing Device and put its icon in the system tray
on my 32bit XP, but failed to do this for XP 64bit.
OS's on separate removable drives.
So it may be a 64bit driver related problem, I've had
a lot of irritating bugs running XP 64bit, and ditched
Vista 64bit Ultimate a few days after installing it.
Ran like a dog with Intel Extreme processor and
4GB Crucial, an an Asus mobo.
Plus virtually no support for existing peripherals.