M$ tricks

[yurka]

I'd like to find my pointer fast. Both microsoft.com and Help and Support instruct me to open Start>Settings>Control Panel>Mouse and then Pointer Options tab.
But there is no such tab! (Windows XP 5.1, SP3). Tab Pointers does not have pointer visibility option.
End of story?

[Train]

Humm, mine looks like this.

[Steve R Jones]

I'd like to find my pointer fast.

Approx how long does it currently take you to find your mouse

[SuperSparks]

You need to install the MS Intellipoint drivers in order to see that tab. The built-in default driver does not have it.

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/do...px?category=mk

[yurka]

Thank you, SuperSparks!
I'll start right now.

[yurka]

I'd like to share with you some recently discovered phenomenon: immediately upon starting Windows, a small information box announced that Windows Explorer "encountered a problem and has to close". I search the Net and the M$ website for solutions, wasted a lot of time.
Then I suddenly remembered that it happened after a Googly icon appeared at the bottom of my screen, next to Start button. I have a small Google address bar (it takes less than a quarter of the total length of the screen). Anyway, I uninstalled Google icon. Windows Explorer "recovered" immediately!
I am impressed: does M$ monitors all Windows in the world? Windows is much older that Google, so it did not have Google-recognition SW, apparently, it was surreptitiously installed later! Is it legal?