Problem with touchpad, mouse (driver, posisbly)

I like to set my pointer speed to "fast", but when I restart it always resets to default. This is true for both an external mouse and the touchpad. Anyone else experience this and found a solution? I've already tried reinstalling drivers.

 

Yeah, I've seen this as well across as many systems as I recall doing it. If you modify the settings of the secific driver - say for a mouse (logitech), or your touchpad (synaptics), those seem to "remember"... but if you change the ones in windows, those are what seem to reset.

 

Hmm. Under Mouse in control panel, there is a tab for Synaptics. I click settings (for touchpad, which is "Enabled") under that Tab and it brings me to an array of options. Having browsed through them, I don't think there is an option to set pointer speed. There is an option for "Edge Speed." Not sure what that is, but setting that to "fastest" seemed to change nothing.

 

It's sorta a known issue. The mouse and trackpad conflict and you rarely get the speed you want for wither unless you like the defaults. There may be a solution, but I haven't seen it yet.

~ Brett

 

I found a solution... Install a different operating system!

I just installed XP Pro and manually installed drivers. Now my pointer works the way I want it to. On top of that, boot time is about 25%-50% faster. If anyone else here has MSDNAA, download XP pro and see if it makes the same difference for you.

Also, even without MCE, Asus includes a program that mimics it when you press the MCE button ("Instant Fun"), so the button is not worthless as I was thinking it would be.

 

Same system, same problem. Other solutions besides installing XP Pro? I'm on MCE currently and every time I start up my computer, I need to adjust the pointer speed b/c it resets every time I turn it off.

 

I was having the same problem on my A8JP. The only settings that would stay were the ones in the Logitech SetPoint program. I uninstalled it since it wasn't doing anything special for me and my Windows settings stayed after that.

 

Wait so your settings stayed on the logitech setpoint, but you uninstalled it anyway and your windows settings weren't reset?
I also did have setpoint installed but my cursor speed was still reset w/ and w/o it installed.
Any other suggestions?

 

bump......

 

So is there a solution to this?
I installed linux and of course don't have that problem, but it get really irritating to have to change the mouse settings every time I use the windows op system. And no reinstalling the drivers doesn't seem to work.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=64400
look at post 5