[RESOLVED] Mouse Button - Left/Right Confusion & Setting

[OneBigNewbie]

I am using WinXP Home SP3, and have a HP Wireless Mouse (used it for more than a week without problems).

Yesterday I have found that the mouse buttons configurations (left/right) are interchanged. I went to Control Panel>Mouse Properties>Button Configuration, and switched it to the one I desired (using the left button to be the primary button). Clicked 'Apply', and then 'OK'.

The configuration is succesfully switched... BUT JUST AS LONG AS THE COMPUTER IS NOT RESTARTED.

Whenever I restarted my computer, the Right Button becomes the primary one again.

Please help me to make this configuration permanent (until I switch it via Control Panel again).

Appreciate the help from all you good folks in here.

[SuperSparks]

Fire up the Registry Editor, then navigate to:

HK_Current_User\Control Panel\Mouse

And set "SwapMouseButtons" to zero.

[OneBigNewbie]

Thanks SuperSparks,

Can you give me step by step instruction how to do it... scared of playing with the Registry... and using the Editor.

Appreciate it.

[Train]

In the mean time, a nice tutorial on the subject.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/cont...asy-lesson.htm

[OneBigNewbie]

Thanks SuperSparks,

Most probably while your were posting your 2nd reply, I figured it out myself.
On my computer it is HKEY_CURRENT_USER....

After a couple of trials using the Control Panel configuration, and trying to observe the change inside the registry (it did not change the registry - it stayed as '0' - meaning the RIGHT button is the primary).

And to activate the LEFT button as the primary, I change the value to '1'...

Restarted my computer (two times already to make sure), and so far it worked. (I cannot say if it would work for the third re-start yet).

SuperSparks, you are great !!!

[SuperSparks]

I'm glad to have helped