crazy mouse

millwalll

hi all on my laptop I have the mouse button in the middle of the keyboard. but as soon as i use it the mouse it goes mad and goes all over the place is there way to fix this.

Moneymaker

Sorry, I don't understand. What is your native language?

Torby

sounds like one of those older laptops that had a nipple "joystick" in the keyboard...probably between the H,J and N keys that you coud use instead of a touchpad....and it looks like they are posting this message from that very laptop with dodgy keyboard.....

GreenNotM

millwalll wrote:

hi all on my laptop I have the mouse button in the middle of the keyboard. but as soon as i use it the mouse it goes mad and goes all over the place is there way to fix this.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: yeah that "nipple" is the mouse pointer - Toshiba used to provide crocodile textured "covers" The buttons are below the keybrd...

Perhap Millwall u can google up a manual for that old laptop - is it an IBM or Tosh ?

j_davies

Maybe he/she means its the touchpad, maybe the synaptics pointer device driver has gone mental.

Torby

millwalll wrote:

hi all on my laptop I have the mouse button in the middle of the keyboard. but as soon as i use it the mouse it goes mad and goes all over the place is there way to fix this.

obviously (GreenNotM) you didn't see the original post....whic he edited just after me and moneymaker replied....if you'd seen it you would probably have understood our posts better....it looked not so much as if he typed it....more more as if a cat had walked over his keyboard

only after he did his post edit does the picture become clearer....

GreenNotM

You can still buy them Toshiba Mouse Cap (Nipple) for Tecra M2

... looking for a pic - of course the IBM ones were blue:cool:

GreenNotM

The IBM version in red .....


But I have never seen the following version - picture from an IBM site 'onest



http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/tp/thand.html

Torby

love the one from the ibm site....really encourages the old "hands on " approach

millwalll

yeah that what it is the laptop is a ibm thinkpad 600e when i plug mouse in the back its fine but when i try use the mouse in the middle it goes mad its the picture above the top one

GreenNotM

It is just technique - the driver will have acceleration settings etc ...

Best thing is to play a few games of minesweeper (Skills - accurate clicking with both buttons) and solitaire (Skills - "drag and drop" and double clicking) - after all that is why the games were choosen to be included in Windows 3.x and why they survive ....