registry setting

b11_ · Jul 9, 2007

Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.

glee · Jul 9, 2007

Export the Registry to a text file saved on your hard drive.

Open Control Panel> Mouse, set the pointer speed slider one notch faster, click OK
all the way out and close Control Panel.

Export the Registry to a text file again, with a different name.

Do a file comparison to detect what has changed, using FC in DOS, or better yet, an
app such as WinDiff (available on the Windows 98 CD, in the "\tools\reskit\file"
folder).
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"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.

Ron Badour · Jul 9, 2007

I think this is it: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay

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"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.

glee · Jul 9, 2007

Hi Ron!

MenuShowDelay sets the response speed of sub-menus to a mouse-over, not the speed of
the pointer as it travels across the screen, which *appears* to be what the OP is
asking about ("mouse pointer speed").
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"Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddress.com> wrote in message
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>I think this is it: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay
>
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> Regards
>
> Ron Badour
> MS MVP 1997 - 2007
>
>
> "b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.
>
>

John John · Jul 9, 2007

Maybe MouseSensitivity at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse

John

Ron Badour wrote:

> I think this is it: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay
>

Franc Zabkar · Jul 10, 2007

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:56:01 -0700, b11_
<b11@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.

FWIW, this post lists the results of my experimentation with various
mouse parameters:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc/msg/31dcd3aced8a8d48?dmode=source&hl=en

- Franc Zabkar
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MEB · Jul 10, 2007

"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
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| On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:56:01 -0700, b11_
| <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:
|
| >Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.
|
| FWIW, this post lists the results of my experimentation with various
| mouse parameters:
|
|
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc/msg/31dcd3aced8a8d48?dmode=source&hl=en
|
| - Franc Zabkar
| --
| Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Franc's message was thus [Did I miss something or was there no answer?]:

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
Subject: Increasing mouse speed
Date: 1999/03/29

A Win95 customer wishes to increase his mouse speed beyond that which
is possible from Control Panel.

I checked the registry settings and found three likely keys, each of
which changes according to the Control Panel selections.

The relevant registry entry seems to be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control_Panel\Mouse

The following is a table of values for each of the three registry keys
for all possible Control Panel selections.

Min Max Control Panel mouse speed selections
-------------------
0 1 1 1 2 2 2 Mouse speed --|
0 10 7 4 4 4 4 Threshold 1 |-- Registry settings
0 0 0 0 12 9 6 Threshold 2 --|

Does anyone understand the meanings of "mouse speed", "threshold 1",
and "threshold 2"?

It appears that to increase the mouse speed, one could increase the
value of the "mouse speed" key, and reduce the values of the two
"threshold" keys. I experimented with several, including 3 1 1, but
was unable to observe any change. BTW, I did reboot between changes.

I tried TweakUI but found no relevant tweaks.

Does anyone have a solution?

-- Franc Zabkar

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Jeff Richards · Jul 10, 2007

Mouse speed is usually expressed in mickeys per pixel. However, there
should be a sensitivity setting (0 to 100) that is applied to the basic
mickey rate to get the actual rate.

The thresholds are the mouse movement speeds at which speed doubling kicks
in.
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"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 17:56:01 -0700, b11_
> <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:
>
>>Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer speed.
>
> FWIW, this post lists the results of my experimentation with various
> mouse parameters:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc/msg/31dcd3aced8a8d48?dmode=source&hl=en
>
> - Franc Zabkar
> --
> Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Ron Badour · Jul 12, 2007

I read the question but obviously not well enough <G>.

To OP, sorry about that. Here are the changes that were made when I
increased the speed of the mouse pointer:

Status,Key,Value Name,Ori. Value Data,New Value Data,Ori. Type,New Type
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Changed","HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Cursors","","","","Binary","String"
"Added","HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse","","","","",""
"Added","HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Mouse","MouseSpeed","2","","String",""
"Added","HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Mouse","MouseThreshold1","4","","String",""
"Added","HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Mouse","MouseThreshold2","9","","String",""
"Added","HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Config\0001\Display\Settings","MouseTrails","0","","String",""
"Changed","HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control
Panel\Cursors","","","","Binary","String"
"Added","HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Mouse","","","","",""
"Added","HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control
Panel\Mouse","MouseSpeed","2","","String",""
"Added","HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control
Panel\Mouse","MouseThreshold1","4","","String",""
"Added","HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control
Panel\Mouse","MouseThreshold2","9","","String",""

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Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2007

"glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Ron!
>
> MenuShowDelay sets the response speed of sub-menus to a mouse-over, not
> the speed of the pointer as it travels across the screen, which *appears*
> to be what the OP is asking about ("mouse pointer speed").
> --
> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
> http://dts-l.org/
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> "Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddress.com> wrote in message
> news:OEnmzLpwHHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>I think this is it: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Ron Badour
>> MS MVP 1997 - 2007
>>
>>
>> "b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:EED14909-6A93-4719-B9F9-CAFCBFD72ACB@microsoft.com...
>>> Seeking the registry setting that corresponds to the mouse pointer
>>> speed.
>>
>>
>

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