input devices

I have always wondered what the majority of people use, wired or wireless mice? I use wireless but am going to switch to a wired mouse just because my mouse has died on my before during a critical time. What do you guys and gals use?

Hi, i want to input a device in line-in, and i used 'listen to this device' but that causes a 0,5sec lag. I've read that if you up the volume under Speaker Properties=> levels tab you don't have to use the 'listen' option and the lag goes away. However, when i check my options there is...

Are mice and keyboards plug-and-play for laptops (automatically detected and ready to use)? Or will it require driver installation of any sort? If it helps I have a Dell laptop and will be buying a Dell keyboard and mice...

Hey all! I've been having issues with my PC detecting my USB Keyboard and Mouse for some time now. Sometimes it would detect them and go to install them but then tell me "The device is unplugged" (whih wasn't true, I checked all of the cables everytime. Usually I have to uninstall the USB tree...

I had to send my Dell Inspiron 1420 off to get the Nvidia Chip replace. They pulled the mother board and fixed it and reinstalled it. When I got it back I had to reload the HD with W7-64 due to wiping it thinking that was the problem instead of the chip. It had XP before if that matters. Now my...

How do I turn off the ripple effect when using Windows 7 home premium with a Wacom pen tablet? It's incredibly annoying. Never had this problem with Vista. Thank you.

Hello ! About two weeks ago, my girlfriend's laptop (Dell Inspiron 1721) running 7 x64 had the mouse poorly responding. Right after the boot, swiping on the touchpad barely moved it on the screen...just inch by inch...:confused: The system loads fine, if I press the Windows key for example it...

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz takes a look at the Microsoft Touch Mouse and discusses the ways in which it will help us to gradually move to the Windows 8 touch screen interface. Link Removed

Hi guys, Here is the story of my sad spiral into doom: 1) I use a SmartNav head tracker (hands-free mouse). One day it started giving choppy performance in first person shooters. It seemed to be due to a dodgy webcam driver I'd installed. No problem, right? I used Win7 restore points to...

I have 3 HP Multi-media keyboards. On my Vista system the programs for the multi-media keys are displayed in a grid in the Control Panel section Keyboard. In the Windows 7 Control panel Keyhoard the grid is there, but is blank and there seems to be no way to change any thing. It appears to me...

Microsoft has finally made official its answer to Apple’s multitouch Magic Mouse: the Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7. I was prepared to scoff, given how execrable multitouch support in Windows 7 is in the first place, but you know what? As an Apple user, I want one, because this was...

My computer thinks that I am holding the ctrl key. I did the updates and it still hasn't fixed. ALso did a complete restore and tried and brand new keyboard. Any ideas? Dell was no help at all and I have been searching and still can't seem to get it fixed

Hello, I have a HP Pavillion DV4-1275mx laptop. With Windows Visat x64. I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 in a seperate partition of my Hard Drive with a clean install. At first it worked great. Then, I turned it off and let it install 34 updates. When I turned my Laptop back on. My...

I was just thinking about this so what is better for a keyboard and mouse. Connecting it via USB or PS2. I cannot really think that the operation of these devices should really be different either way. :confused:

When i am playing any gamesd on win7 pro N 64 bit, i seem to have an issue where the mouse cursor cannot reach the bottom or right hand side of the screen. This makes it very hard t click buttons, scrolls screens etc. Any ideas on how to fix this? Is driving me nuts. If this is the...

Hi all what it is, is i can be scrolling around as you do everything fine... then all of a sudden the mouse will fly off to another point of the screen, ha ha ha... its like i have lost controll of it or something else has got hold of it... whats the coo is it a virus or a dodgy mouse...

Hello I bought a brand new MICROSOFT NATURAL KEYBOARD 4000 to replace the exact same keyboard that's a few years old. Something went horribly wrong. The keyboard and the mouse no longer work, together, individually, or combined with other keyboards and mouse. The computer no longer...

System: Win7 x64 Software: intellimouse 7, Wacom 6.1.2-5 I have had both my Wacom Intuos4 pen tablet and my Microsoft wireless optical mouse working at the same time before in Win7 x64, BUT - my screen saver and power saving features did not work. I read that there was an issue with the...

Hi all. I have an Acer Aspire 5738Z, which came with Vista Pro 32. I have since upgraded to 7 Pro 32, using the upgrade disc. The system worked fine for a little while. But then my (admittedly cheap) USB mini mouse ceased to work (turned out its wire may have had a problem) — none of the...

Hi, I`m running FSX in W7 and I noticed an issue about hatswitch (view pan) when using my logitech rumble pad 2 and it is not enabled the "Z" fix to move the camera. I have my HD partitioned and in one partition have Win XP SP3 and in the other W7. When I run FSX under W XP I see no problem with...