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I use my mouse on the left, so I switched the primary and secondaary
buttons under Control Panel > Mouse in Windows XP. This has worked
fine for years. Recently I sat for a weekend, and the kids didn't
like mousing left-handed, so I moved the mouse and switched the
buttons to right-handed normal while they were here. Fine.

I switched the mouse back when they left. The problem now is that
every time I reboot, the mouse is right-handed again: the computer
has forgotten the "Switch primary and secondary buttons" setting.
I have to reset it to left-handed every time I start the computer.

Any notion why the setting isn't sticking, or what I can do to make it
do so?

"Venn" <> wrote in message
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>I use my mouse on the left, so I switched the primary and secondaary
> buttons under Control Panel > Mouse in Windows XP. This has worked
> fine for years. Recently I sat for a weekend, and the kids didn't
> like mousing left-handed, so I moved the mouse and switched the
> buttons to right-handed normal while they were here. Fine.
>
> I switched the mouse back when they left. The problem now is that
> every time I reboot, the mouse is right-handed again: the computer
> has forgotten the "Switch primary and secondary buttons" setting.
> I have to reset it to left-handed every time I start the computer.
>
> Any notion why the setting isn't sticking, or what I can do to make it
> do so?


What brand of mouse? I'd suggest getting the latest mouse drivers from the
manufacturer. Those get updated quite frequently, and most users never get
the updates installed.

"Venn" <> wrote in message news:...
> I use my mouse on the left, so I switched the primary and secondaary
> buttons under Control Panel > Mouse in Windows XP. This has worked
> fine for years. Recently I sat for a weekend, and the kids didn't
> like mousing left-handed, so I moved the mouse and switched the
> buttons to right-handed normal while they were here. Fine.
>
> I switched the mouse back when they left. The problem now is that
> every time I reboot, the mouse is right-handed again: the computer
> has forgotten the "Switch primary and secondary buttons" setting.
> I have to reset it to left-handed every time I start the computer.
>
> Any notion why the setting isn't sticking, or what I can do to make it
> do so?

Start regedit, expand and highlight the following keys and look in the
right window for "NoSaveSettings". If you find it, delete it, reconfigure
the mouse, then restart the computer.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer

Ben

Ben Myers --
> Start regedit, expand and highlight the following keys and look in the
> right window for "NoSaveSettings". If you find it, delete it, reconfigure
> the mouse, then restart the computer.

Okay, there's no "NoSaveSettings" under

> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer

and there's not even an "Explorer" under "Policies" in

> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer

I do however have a "NoSaveSettings" in several other places, such as

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings

set to zero.

"Venn" <> wrote in message news:...
> Okay, there's no "NoSaveSettings" under
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
> and there's not even an "Explorer" under "Policies" in
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
> I do however have a "NoSaveSettings" in several other places, such as
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
> CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings
> HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
> CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings
> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
> CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings
> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
> CurrentVersion\Program Manager\Restrictions\NoSaveSettings
> set to zero.

Open "win.ini" in the Windows or Winnt folder, find the "[windows]"
section and look for "SwapMouseButtons=1". If you find it, remove
it and save the change. Also, make sure you are not logging in as a
"guest" user.

Ben

Ben Myers --
> Open "win.ini" in the Windows or Winnt folder, find the "[windows]"
> section and look for "SwapMouseButtons=1". If you find it, remove
> it and save the change.

The file existed, the entry didn't. But after trying various things
for a week, I found that I was somehow loading a Logitech mouse
driver, when I use an iOne Scorpius keypad mouse with generic
windows driver, and deleting the Logitech driver finally got
Windows to remember the settings across reboots.