[time-nuts] RE: GPS Serial Data Causes Mouse Pointer to Move

[Randy Warner]

Brooke,

Disabling the mouse does work well, although I have seen some Windows machines put the mouse back anyway! Don't ya just luv Windoze.... Another GPS type showed me how to eliminate the mouse detection with a simple change to the registry. If anyone is interested, I wrote a Tech Note on this a couple of months ago. Contact me offline if interested. 


Randy Warner
Senior Applications Engineer
Synergy Systems, LLC

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Brooke Clarke [mailto:brooke at pacific.net] 
Sent:	Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:10 AM
To:	Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement; tacgps at lists.tapr.org; Randy Warner
Subject:	GPS Serial Data Causes Mouse Pointer to Move

Hi:

For the last week or so I've been having a problem with the mouse pointer moving all by itself.  Today I finally found that it appears to be a bug in Windows XP SP2 + latest updates.

When Windows powers up it sees the GPS serial data on COM1 and thinks it's "New Hardware" and installs a driver for a serial ball pointing device.

Using Device Manager to uninstall the serial ball pointing device does not work because at the next boot it gets reinstalled.  

The fix is to Disable the serial ball pointing device.

73,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE

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