Sidewinder Strategic Commander problems

Thanks very much,

it works perfectly !!!!

Wido

Thanks, Wido. I think that may have done it although I'm not 100% sure which change made it work for me:

1) I went into the directory where it had installed the SC and right-clicked on both the daemon14.dll and Strategic Commander.exe files and in their Compatibility properties set them to emulate Windows 2000 mode and to Run This Program as an Administrator.

2) I moved my SC cable to a pre-USB 2.0 port (at least that's what I think I did - one set of ports gives me a message "This program would run faster in a USB 2.0 port" whenever I plug my iPod into it - this surprised me because its a new motherboard and I didn't think it would have an old style port on the front but whatever).

3) This time when I went into the Devices page, and made the changes to switch my drivers to the SC ones, it did give me the message requesting I restart the machine (it had not done that previously). When I did, it worked.

So one or more of the above was the solution. I'm not going to play with it (and possibly break it) by trying to figure out which one.

Ok, one last question:

How do I get the MS Daemon off of the "Blocked Startup Programs" list? Every time I go in there I need to go in there and tell it to run the daemon. Is there any way to get this to happen automatically?

Sorry I've been away. I have recently discovered that if you do not TURN OFF
user account control, you will not get the device listing for the virtual
mouse. I have no idea why only the v mouse if affected, but it is. tuun off
UAC and all should be well. I hope I am not to late to help!!!!!

"wido" wrote:

>
> Hi there,
> be glad, you are not alone in this matter. I can't get it work either.
> But the instructions say: virual kb and mouse, i do not see the virtual
> mouse. I do have the list with:
> - ms S C
> - ms S C HID drivers
> - ms sidewinder Virtual Keyboard
>
> So do i mis something
>
> Wido
>
>
> --
> wido
>

PLEASE HELP TURBO.....

I did the above before turning off the User Account Control, so I went back
turned that off but nothing happened so I started uninstalling the HID
compliant game controllers and devices and now I'm stuck with it displaying
the Microsoft Strategic Commander under "Other Devices" with no HID options.
I have tried reinstalling the drivers, but still get an error and it comes
back the same way if I unplug and plug the controller back in, PLEASE HELP!!!!

Thanks.

"turbotoes" wrote:

"Rotorhead" wrote:
Rotorhead: uninstall the strat comm from “programs and features�, reboot and
start from scratch, following these instructions to the letter. If you then
get an error message, let me know what it is and I will try to help. I now
have four vista machines all a bit different and all have strat comms
attached and working. So i can’t see why yours should not work.

Okay, let’s start from the beginning.
Turn off user account control, and make sure your account has admin
privileges.
Stick disk in cd drive, find and run setup.exe
Follow instruction through, select region and all that stuff, accept the
agreement, and to keep it simple the default location. You will then see the
progress bar zip through installing the program files and then the profiles,
at this point the setup will rudely ask “if you are sure you want to exit
install ?� click yes.
Now for the plugging in. Before you do, open up device manager (control
panel, system, device manager) then click on the plus sign by �human
interface devices� - just to see what is there-
Now plug in, you may or may not get a message about drivers being installed
at this point, but you should get two new devices under the HID heading,
1. HID-compliant device and
2. Usb human interface device.
Right click on HID-compliant device and choose “ update driver�
Then click “ browse my computer for driver software,
Then “let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer�
In the next window you will have a choice of - HID-compliant device
Or - Microsoft SideWinder Strategic Commander HID drivers,
Click the MS SW drivers, then next. You should then get a message telling
you that “windows has successfully updated driver software� hoorah.
You should now have two new devices under HID
Microsoft SideWinder Strategic Commander HID drivers and
Microsoft SideWinder virtual keyboard (you may also have Microsoft
SideWinder virtual mouse, but not always?!)
Now repeat the driver update for the “Usb human interface device.�
Once this is complete you may or -not- have to restart your pc. And then
your strat comm should work fine.

Turbo....

YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!

I thought I was going to have to throw my Strat Comm out the window, it
would have been a sad day as I love this thing!!!! You should get paid for
all the help you've provided in this forumn.

THANKS AGAIN!!!
Bryan

"Rotorhead" wrote:
ERR. actually I'm a girly, but glad to help!!!!

Correction.....YOU ARE THE WOMAN!!!!

Thanks again.

"turbotoes" wrote: