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Sometimes the movement of the cursor on the screen in response to my
moving the mouse (wireless, USB, Logitech) is erratic or jumpy. Usually the hard drive activity light is on, so it seems like some other task is being given higher priority than the mouse. How can I elevate the priority of the mouse? I don't see a way of doing it using Device Manager/Mouse or Device Manager/Devices and Printers/Logitech Unifying Receiver. Windows 8. Thanks, R1 |
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Rebel1 wrote:
Sometimes the movement of the cursor on the screen in response to my moving the mouse (wireless, USB, Logitech) is erratic or jumpy. Usually the hard drive activity light is on, so it seems like some other task is being given higher priority than the mouse. How can I elevate the priority of the mouse? I don't see a way of doing it using Device Manager/Mouse or Device Manager/Devices and Printers/Logitech Unifying Receiver. Windows 8. --- There's your problem :-) Thanks, R1 I don't think anyone at Microsoft has noticed that Windows 8 isn't a very good OS :-) They've attempted to run lots of things as if they were "tasks", and in my book, it isn't working right. The OS "reserves" CPU cycles for itself - which is the developers way of trying to make the GUI "responsive". But, it just doesn't work right. And I can't see anyone at Microsoft admitting that, and making a major change to the implementation. All they want to do now, is make pretty icons on the desktop. That's the future level of change from Microsoft. In my experience, PS/2 connected devices have the most reliable input. There is "less software" in the input path with PS/2. I don't think you really wanted that as an answer though. As PS/2 is disappearing on computers, never to return. It doesn't use a software polling technique, so it's harder to screw up the input process under corner conditions (heavy CPU load, kernel taking a snooze because you're jammed in a disk I/O call). Paul |
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On 1/15/2014 2:34 PM, Paul wrote:
Rebel1 wrote: Sometimes the movement of the cursor on the screen in response to my moving the mouse (wireless, USB, Logitech) is erratic or jumpy. Usually the hard drive activity light is on, so it seems like some other task is being given higher priority than the mouse. How can I elevate the priority of the mouse? I don't see a way of doing it using Device Manager/Mouse or Device Manager/Devices and Printers/Logitech Unifying Receiver. Windows 8. --- There's your problem :-) Thanks, R1 I don't think anyone at Microsoft has noticed that Windows 8 isn't a very good OS :-) They've attempted to run lots of things as if they were "tasks", and in my book, it isn't working right. The OS "reserves" CPU cycles for itself - which is the developers way of trying to make the GUI "responsive". But, it just doesn't work right. And I can't see anyone at Microsoft admitting that, and making a major change to the implementation. All they want to do now, is make pretty icons on the desktop. That's the future level of change from Microsoft. In my experience, PS/2 connected devices have the most reliable input. There is "less software" in the input path with PS/2. I don't think you really wanted that as an answer though. As PS/2 is disappearing on computers, never to return. It doesn't use a software polling technique, so it's harder to screw up the input process under corner conditions (heavy CPU load, kernel taking a snooze because you're jammed in a disk I/O call). Paul Thanks, Paul. |
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On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:39:47 PM UTC+8, Rebel1 wrote:
Sometimes the movement of the cursor on the screen in response to my What I find is on my laptop with a trackpad and a USB mouse (since I use both an external USB keyboard and USB mouse), the trackpad is more reliable, as is the built-in laptop keyboard, since sometimes, as is common with USB connections the mouse and/or kb, the mouse/kb will hang for up to 30 seconds until it comes back. As to elevating priority, that would be tough to do I think, as it goes to system internal calls. RL |
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:09:28 -0800 (PST), RayLopez99
wrote: On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 9:39:47 PM UTC+8, Rebel1 wrote: Sometimes the movement of the cursor on the screen in response to my What I find is on my laptop with a trackpad and a USB mouse (since I use both an external USB keyboard and USB mouse), the trackpad is more reliable, as is the built-in laptop keyboard, since sometimes, as is common with USB connections the mouse and/or kb, the mouse/kb will hang for up to 30 seconds until it comes back. Using USB, a mini-keyboard KM400 series, and mouse. Both Logitec, both replaced older Logitec models, and both requiring their own included USB transmitter dongle on XP/SP3. Logitec has fallen in software, although for the money neither can be presently beat for useable hardware in the mini-form. Especially the mouse. It's indestructible from the standpoint of the older model, having replaced the center mouse roller, (usually assignable to, say, browser page-movement mechanism, or an audio apps' vol control), a mechanical affair, with a touchpad strip performing that same function. Add to that the new rechargeable no-memory NICAD batteries, Tennergy on par with Enelop, which never effectively are imposed on by the LED unit run-on, running it out of power, and it'll run from just about any surface, either from off my clear glass coffee or directly off the shag carpet. $20 for the keyboard and $10 for the mouse in US dollars. One of the two keyboard's larger left shift sensor may be going out after near two year's steady usage. The older mouse, however, a girlfriend was freshly wearing it out on me, "rubbing it in," off into oblivion upon the carpet. An amazing woman, actually, a professional dancer of some remarkably singular beauties, whose capacity and love of music was only to be equaled by her capacity for driving me stark-raving nuts. I can proudly attest that I was than only slightly enthralled to literally throw that mouse to her-- with little doubt left in her grinning lasciviously at me from the carpet where she liked lying in front of FooBar's audio interface;-- what sheer pleasure I cannot veritably describe by measure to anyone here listening, to justify a scale of satisfaction I derived in tossing that to her. It was as if, suddenly to realized, I were proffering a rather large center hambone to some vicarious, over-muscled pitbull, and it was slobbering and entralled, all at once, all over me. I had to kick her out of my house shortly after, I'm so sad but undeniably better off to say, although in being in candid truth positive she would never have "rubbed out" that particular mouse. |
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:59:34 -0500, Flasherly
wrote: Sorry for the last two drafted paragraph's capitalized corrections. I can proudly attest that I was MORE than just slightly enthralled to literally throw that mouse to her-- with little doubt left HOW AFFECTED HER REACTION, grinning lasciviously UP at me from the carpet whereUPON she liked lying in front of FooBar's audio interface;-- NOR what sheer pleasure IT IS [THAT] cannot veritably BE described by measure to anyone here listening, to justify a scale of satisfaction I derived in tossing that to her. It was as if [DEL] suddenly to realize[DEL][DEL] I were proffering a rather large center hambone to some vicarious, over-muscled pitbull, [DEL] slobbering and entralled, all at once, all over me. I had to kick her out of my house shortly after, I'm so sad but undeniably better off to say, although in being [DEL] ALL candid truth positive she would never have "rubbed out" that particular mouse. |
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