Keyboard and Mouse possessed

Post » Sat Jul 10, 2010 9:47 am

I own a corded Saitek Eclipse II, and a corded Microsoft Sidewinder mouse. They've worked just fine for years now. Today, I sat my 2 year old in front of the computer and let him play a few toddler friendly flash games. I kept an eye on him, and he didn't appear to do anything to anything.

After all this, I went to play some Minecraft, and immediately knew something was wrong. The right click wasn't always right clicking, and when it did, it would click 2-3 times rapidly. It doesn't feel or look like he got anything in there.

So I rebooted the computer, then went to play some Nehrim. (First time firing it up. I was excited.) Everything seemed to go smoothly, but the game kept drawing the weapon automatically, though I never press F. And clicking still seemed a little off.

And while typing this post, the cursor occasionally jumps off the text box, as though I pressed TAB.

Fiddling with the Windows desktop, the left click sometimes "sticks" briefly and tries to draw a selection box. Right click seems to have a delay to it.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate.
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Bonnie Clyde
 
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Post » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:09 am

Ah, I seem to have solved the problem before anyone could even respond. Turns out, he somehow managed to program in a macro, then set the macro to run when you right click. I have no idea how he managed this, but I fixed it. I think I'll get a very basic mouse to hook up. (One without programmable buttons.) when I want to let him play something.
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