Wheel Mouse (resolved)

[Oliver1]

Silly question, but how do you turn the wheel off, on windows XP. It used to be dead easy in NT, just went to control panel and then mouse. The option just does not seem to exist in XP.
This is only important as we have a custom app here which goes nuts if you accidentally knock the wheel.

[postalrevnant]

Oliver1

Yes you can disable the wheel function.

Go to Control Panel then click the mouse icon.
then click hardware tab, click properties button, click advanced settings tab.

You should see a choice called wheel detection. Click the pull-down menu and choose Detection disabled. Hit the OK button and CPU will prompt for restart. After restart the wheel will be disabled.

Hope this helps

[Oliver1]

Thanks for your response have looked on my PC and a few others with usb and ps2 mice, and neither has an advanced tab (am logged on as a local admin). Assume must be a driver isssue. Any other ideas.
Thanks again for you help.

[Oliver1]

Sorry being an idiot, wasn't logged on as a local admin at all. Logged on as admin and works a treat. Thansk loads.