Mouse and Virtual PC 7

Hi, I'm Stan
I got Virtual PC 7 for Mac, and I got Windows XP installed in it, etc. It seems to work fine, until I get to the desktop. Things look good, a balloon says, "Change your resolution to a bigger size," but the real problem is controlling the mouse. How do I control the Windows mouse in VPC? I move my mouse cursor here and there, but the windows' cursor sits there. I tried clicking places, does nothing. If I hold down the left mouse button and drag it, it selects the window as if it were an Acrobat Reader document (the dotted selection box thing). I wanna start by clicking the Windows' START button, but I can't control the windows mouse cursor. I'm new to VPC, so help me if you can, I'm feeling down.
thnx

Which mouse are you using with the Mac?
iFelix

Similar Messages

  • IMac G4 flat panel with slow mouse and ever-whirring fan

    hi there -
    my lovely iMac has treated me well for some time now, but gradually over the course of many months, it decided that it will not stop running it's fan, even when it seems cool it the touch and the room is cool. The noise is loud enough to drown out quiet music, and usually kicks in if the computer has been off overnight within about 15-20 minutes of startup, never to stop. i ave tried giving her space, moving the routers etc away, but alas...
    also, my mac has become prone to freezing the mouse quite often, but unplugging the mouse and replugging it seems to always fix it for a bit, but only temporarily - like 3 minutes or so sometimes, sometimes it's fine for longer after unplugging but just slow to react. and while it never used to freeze up altogether, it now quite often does.
    we have a good amount of programs and music, but i don't know enough about computers to know how much is too much. we always try to keep as little running as possible - i.e. just netscape, or netscape and itunes, or just itunes. here are my computer's stats:
    iMac G4 flat panel, 700MHZ Power PC G4 768 MB SD RAM
    i don't know if this is helpful, but:
    capacity on hard drive:38.15 GB available: 2.87
    any thoughts from you experts out there would be so very greatly appreciated. i love my little mac dearly, and don't want to see her bite the dust if all it would take is a little preemptive work! please help.
    iMac g4 flatscreen   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

    My interpretation of the information you noted about the capacity of the
    hard disk drive and the remaining free-space, is indicative of too-full a
    hard disk drive so that could be the main problem. Instead of less than
    10% capacity remaining unused, you need to have more like 20% free.
    There also is a chance there could be bad sectors or some low-level
    corruption on the hard disk drive, in part due to it being too full and
    the drive is also using alot of space normally used as virtual memory
    by the system, so these small remaining places not filled all the time
    are being re-used and that could force the machine to cannabalize
    other data stored on the hard disk drive while the OS is looking for
    VM (virtual memory is automatically allotted and maintained by the
    system, by using hard drive free space; all applications and utilities
    on the computer use, need, and look for it.)
    Other causes of kernel panics could be related to hardware or software.
    Since the hard disk drive is extremely suspect, that is a place to start.
    The use of an external FireWire hard disk drive to save some files to,
    may be helpful; setting up a new external FW HDD may be hard since
    your computer maybe too full to get and use a cloning utility (superdooper
    or carbon copy cloner) but you may be able to save some items to CD
    or DVD-R media; and then start moving the originals of your saved work
    from the computer to the trash. A utility such as What Size can be handy
    to see what files are huge, where they are (and note system files are not
    the ones you need to toss; user generated ones are) and delete some.
    If the hard drive has sufficient damage from over-writing data, it may
    need to be replaced. If not, it may need to be totally erased and the
    Disk Utility used to zero old data and reformat. This is where a working
    copy (clone) on an external drive could be re-cloned back into a Mac
    from an earlier capture of the healthy system, and save alot of time in
    the restoration process; since a clone does not require all the installer
    discs to get a full system back. It does require forethought and action
    before a problem; and making backups of your system off the computer.
    I make complete computer hard drive copies with a clone utility; but these
    are not automatic. It is possible to set up a computer with an automatic
    backup system to make ongoing clones of the complete internal drive.
    The slowness of your system and peripherials is most likely the full
    hard disk drive; and/or issues resulting from that. I suspect this area
    is one requiring action and may be just a starting point to fix damages.

  • Windows 10 install (64 bit). Mouse and keyboard do not work, can't click through setup configuration.

    I've tried with both upgrade and iso installation (starting from Windows 7), but for some reason, after setup is finished and I get into the configuration area (IE, accepting license agreements or choosing network or choosing express setup), I do not have
    a mouse and keyboard to do anything with.  The keyboard and mouse are powered, but aren't giving input.  For example, toggling cap's lock does not show up on the keyboard's lights.
    Keyboard is Razer Black Widow, mouse is Gigabyte M8000X.  I also tried with a Microsoft wireless mouse/keyboard pair with the Razer unplugged during setup (Reason being, a separate razer setup window would appear during the 'configuring devices' stage).
     I am able to install to virtual box, but I've only tried the 32 bit installer.  I have not yet tried the 32 bit installer on the actual machine, and I have not yet tried booting to the CD.

    Review these,
    http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-technical-preview-clean-install.html
    http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2108-windows-10-dual-boot-windows-7-windows-8-a.html
    http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2087-hyper-v-virtualization-setup-use-windows-10-a.html

  • Problem with xfce and/or mouse and keyboard

    Hi!
    Two days ago I've turned on my laptop with Arch and the display manager Slim has frozen immediately. Later on Single-User mode I've uninstalled it. Now in normal mode when I type "startxfce4" everything is showing up, but the mouse and keyboard don't work. I know it's not frozen, because animation of mouse and CPU Frequency Monitor is on.
    Strange fact is that laptop is not connecting with the Internet, so now I don't know where the problem is.
    It's happening when I start xfce both from user and super user.
    Just before those troubles I've updated everything with "pacman -Syu", but I haven't seen anything strange. Also the computer could have been roughly turned off (by unplugging power supply), when was turning on.
    Thanks,
    Gaba

    Sorry for not replying, but I didn't have access to my laptop by this time.
    On grub I have only normal mode and 'fallback' mode, so I have result from 'journalctl' from normal mode.
    I'm sending the fragment of this file where you can see everything after I typed 'startxfce4' in console:
    http://codepad.org/8pYIj8qC
    I see that something is wrong, but after some attempts I don't know how to fix this ^^
    Edit:
    Oh, I forgot to write, that I've tried activate some drivers from 'lspci -k' (there were no "Kernel driver in use:..." in almost every device), but it didn't fi anything.
    Last edited by gargoyle (2015-03-15 23:20:18)

  • Magic Mouse and Employing Pinch to Open and Close Feature

    I have purchased a magic mouse and would like to employ the "pinch to open & close" features (option on multi-touch trackpad) with the magic mouse. This is not the same as zoom (e.g. hold control key with mouse wheel).
    I have tried using bettertouchtool and magicprefs, but it appears that neither accommodates this feature easily. If there were a keyboard shortcut to employ this feature then I think I can assign it to a magic mouse gesture via BTT or Magic Prefs, but I cannot find such a keyboard shortcut.
    Does anyone have any ideas?

    It could be you are approaching it incorrectly.   It can be a tricky little gadget that actually works with minimal pressure.
    Try turning over the mouse so the compartment panel faces you, optical sensor topmost.  Then holding the mouse at each side but not on the panel itself, flick the small, black rectangular panel downwards.   The top of the panel should spring out, though it may require you to manipulate it fully away from the mouse.
    Once you have replaced the batteries, starting at the bottom reverse the procedure then clip into place.   Remember to move the small switch next to the optical sensor upwards which should turn on the green light.   Then click twice to connect.

  • How to Install Physical and Virtual Host

    I am getting licensing issues after I installed Essentials 2012R2 on a physical machine and then used the same license to virtualize it.  It's saying my physical machine needs to hold all the FSMO roles in which my virtual machine is hosting those roles.
    I read that Microsoft allows you to use the Essentials license for the physical and virtual server.  Is that correct? 
    Is there a specific service I need to remove on the physical machine in order for these errors to stop?  I still have the Windows Server Essentials Experience service installed. Is that what needs to be removed?
    Thanks,
    Doug

    Hi Doug,
    There is an article that provide details of licensing for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Please refer to and check if can help us to understand licensing for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials better.
    Understanding Licensing for Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and the Windows
    Server Essentials Experience role
    Please also refer to following article and check if can help you.
    Customize Deployment - Windows Server Essentials
    If any update, please feel free to let me know.
    Hope this helps.
    Best regards,
    Justin Gu
    Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact [email protected]

  • What is the difference between "Invisible" (11g) and "virtual" index?

    Hi
    What is the difference between the "Invisible" index and "virtual" index?
    Thanks
    Balaji

    Indexes can be visible or invisible. An invisible index is maintained by DML operations and cannot be used by the optimizer. Actually takes space, but is not to be used as part of a potential access path.
    AFAIK, a virtual index is created by the tools used in SQL statement access path tuning to provide an alternative for the optimizer to test. It does not take any real space as it is a pure in memory definition.

  • How do i run an external monitor with my macbook and change settings so that when i close the lid the signal to the monitor is not lost and i can continue using the mac with a mouse and a wireless keyboard?

    How do i run an external monitor with my macbook and change settings so that when i close the lid the signal to the monitor is not lost and i can continue using the mac with a mouse and a wireless keyboard?

    No, nothing will prevent the computer from going to sleep when you close its display except third-party hacks that are designed to do exactly that. I strongly advise against using any of those, as they may interfere with successful entry into clamshell mode (and they carry other downside risks as well). Just wait until the computer is asleep (with its sleep light pulsing), then press any key on the keyboard. It sounds as though your setup is working as it's designed to do.

  • Mouse (and keyboard) lag! help?

    I did a clean install of ML a week ago. After a few days mouse lag began to become a serious issue. The cursor jitters instead of moving smoothly; it freezes until a large side-to-side movement wakes it up; it disappears entirely. A truly irritating situation and VERY bad for productivity.
    At first I blamed the wireless mouse (the latest model Apple mouse) and/or its battery charge. A fresh charge did no good. I'm now using a wired USB mouse and the problem remains. It's apparent in all software (at the moment nothing but Safari is running and the cursor just froze for more than a second). Oddly the scroll wheel on the USB mouse seems to work when everything else is dead.
    And.. while typing this, the keyboard went dead. The spacebar alone was ignored, then other keys. Then it woke up. Sheesh. What's going on?
    It's a 2010 Mini with 2GB ram. I have an 8GB upgrade on order. Will that make a difference to the mouse?

    Update: the mouse is actually losing connection to the mini from time to time. It's les than 2 feet from the computer and the battery charge is 100%. Prior to installing ML I never had any issues with bluetooth reception.
    (I shut off the bluetooth in my iPhone and iPad to prevent interference, but it doesn't seem to have made any difference).
    Am I the only person with this problem?

  • USB mouse and keyboard not responding

    I had a power outage yesterday and my iMac was on. I have since tried to start it and my keyboard and mouse are not responding and I get a message that the date on my computer has gone back to before March of 2001. I need help, my hardware warranty just expired and I really don't want to take in it and have to pay $100! Also I put in my start up CD and now I can't get it to eject. Please HELP!!!!!

    Does the keyboard and mouse work after the computer boots up? Try unplugging them and plugging them back in. Make sure to plug them in directly to the computer. If it still is not working try the mouse and the keyboard separately one at a time. Look to see is the caps light comes on the keyboard and look to see if the mouse lights up. To set the date and time go to your System Preferences/Date & Time and put a check in the box that says Set date and time automatically(assuming you are connected to the internet). If you can get this far go to System Preferences/Startup Disk and select the install disk as your startup disk and click restart. When it boots up to the disk, instead of going through the installation, click on Utilities at the top and run Disk Utility on your hard drive.

  • USB mouse and keyboard not working

    Any advice/thoughts/suggestions appreciated:
    All 3 USB ports at the back of my iMac have stopped working.  This means I can't use either a keyboard or mouse, so have no way of logging in.  I turn my iMac on, it boots up as usual, but when it gets to the login screen, the mouse and keyboard don't work and I get a message about bluetooth set-up. (Both my mouse and keyboard are wired, not bluetooth). 
    I have tried an SMC reset (by turning the iMac off, unplugging all USB devices and the power cable, leaving the iMac for a few minutes and then plugging the cable back in a turning it on again).  This didn't work.
    I've also tried a different version of the SMC reset where I hold down the power button whilst all the cables are unplugged and also as I plug the power cable back in.  After doing this, the fan turns on at full speed (v loud), but the mouse and keyboard still don't work.
    I've also checked my mouse on a different computer and it works fine.
    Has anyone got any other suggestions / workarounds?
    Note I can't do a PRAM reset because my keyboard doesn't work.
    Is it probably that the USB hardwear has failed?  If so, is it possible to repair this?  It is worth repairing given it is a 5/6 year old iMac (the white plastic one) which is probably on its last legs anyway?
    many thanks!
    Jez.

    Try the SMC reset again, only this time wait 5 minutes in set 3 instead of fifteen seconds.
    1. Shut down the computer.
    2. Unplug the computer's power cord.
    3. Wait fifteen seconds. 5 minutes.
    4. Attach the computer's power cord.
    5. Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.

  • USB mouse and keyboard don't work on HP Pavilion g7 2203sd, Windows 8.1.

    It is not possible to use a USB mouse or keyboard on the HP Pavilion g7 2203sd notebook running Windows 8.1.
    A wireless mouse used to work (already some time ago), but now wired or wireless mouse and keyboard don't work any more.
    I have tried removing USB devices in the Windows Device Manager and let Windows detect them again, but it does not work.
    I read somewhere that it might have to do with the xHCI USB controller that is installed.
    I tried removing that and connecting the USB mouse but no succes.
    I also looked for driver updates or something to disbale in the BIOS (like xHCI), but nothing found for that.
    Can anybody help me with this problem.
    Thanks!

    Dear Customer,
    Welcome and Thank you for posting your query on HP Support Forum
    It looks like you are having issues with the Keyboard on your Notebook.
    We will surely assist you with this.
    Let’s start with a questions.
    1. Was there any liquid split on the Notebook Keyboard
    2. Is there any Dust settled on the Notebook Keyboard
    3. Are there any Keys which are fallen off / Any Keys which are loose
    Troubleshooting: 
    Step 01. Could you please check and verify if External Keyboard works fine or not?
    Note: Please click on the below shown link to find more troubleshooting steps
    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03738933&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc...
    Hope this helps, for any further queries reply to the post and feel free to join us again
    **Click the KUDOS star on left to say Thanks**
    Make it easier for other people to find solutions by marking a Reply 'Accept as Solution' if it solves your problem.
    Thank You,
    K N R K
    I work on behalf of HP

  • Problem with Left Click (mighty mouse) and flash content

    Hi, first sorry for my bad english...
    Well I have an issue with the left click (i have mighty mouse) and flash content in Firefox:
    if i'm using Firefox and then change to any other app, when i get back to firefox i have no left click anymore...
    So i have to open the mouse setting panel and everything works fine again...
    I don't want to open the mouse panel over and over again to fix that, so what i can do?
    THANKS in advance =)
    I uploaded a video to show the issue:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROWSod5fUjk
    Mighty mouse Settings:
    Left Click + Right Click
    Firefox ver: 3.5.5
    Snow Leopard: 10.6.2
    iMac 24" (iMac9,1)
    Message was edited by: MaLk Gopher

    Hi, Guys!!
    And you have some right cosmic_hippo , Why?
    Well think that the real problem it's something between Firefox and Flash content...
    because if i use Safari and i try make what i describe in the first post, i don't have any problem with the mouse settings.
    Only Happens when i use Firefox...
    Cheers.
    Well the issue is still there...

  • HT1338 When I connect my Macbook Pro to my Dell DLP projector, either via cable or wirelessly, I just see a dark screen with the mouse and mouse trails only, can any one help?

    When I connect my Macbook Pro to my Dell DLP projector, either via cable or wirelessly, I just see a dark screen with the mouse and mouse trails only, can any one help?

    jpmarkques post is a good start point, after folling his directions, you can try detect displays. Also try different rsolution and refresh rates.
    Most of the projectors I have used support a 1024X768 res.
    Youcan also try a pram reset if it still does not detect.
    Leave theproctor connected and powered up, power down the MBP.
    Power back up the MBP and hold the following keys before you hear the start up chime:
    Option, command, P,R (no commas) continue to hold these keys till you hear the start up chime 2 times.

  • How do I hook a Mac Mini to an existing PC Laptop Dock in order to use existing 23" monitor, mouse, and keyboard?

    My parents currently have a Dell Inspiron desktop (which thanks to Windows has crashed and requred re-installation of the OS and then ordering an OEM hard drive and starting from scratch). Anyway, my dad has started bringing home a work laptop, and I got him a laptop docking station so he could take advantage of the 23" monitor, keyboard, and wireless mouse that he prefers.
    My brother and I are going to buy my parents at Mac Mini for Christmas.  It's probably simple (or with my luck, impossible) but I need to know what I need to know in order to also hook up the Mac Mini to the monitor/keyboard/mouse (we may buy a keyboard and mouse).  Is it just a matter of cables/splitters?
    I'd appreciate any assistance.  I've been trying to get my parents switched over to Mac for almost 10 years now.  Dad is stubborn and will definitely want to use the 23" monitor he bought so I have to find a way to make that work.  The keyboard and mouse aren't a huge deal - instead of being on the drawer that rolls out from under the desk, the Mac stuff can be on top of the desk.  I just need to know if it's possible to avoid that and do everything through the docking station (even if I have to get a USB hub).  I'm pretty sure the monitor has a DVI input, and the current work laptop is using the analog input.
    Thanks all.

    The Mac mini is not going to be able to use the Dell docking station itself, due to
    the Mac mini is not a laptop
    it does not have a docking connector
    However you might be able to achieve what you want with a KVM (Keyboard, Video, and Mouse) switchbox which would sit between the dock and Mac mini and the Screen/Keyboard/Mouse.
    For this to be as easy as possible, both computers need to be using the same types of connections, so that means USB for the keyboard and mouse, and ideally DVI for the monitor. I am using a dock with a Dell laptop and the dock does have a DVI connection as well as a VGA connection so yours might as well.
    You would then need a KVM switchbox with USB and DVI connections. This one would be a suitable example http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-2-Port-Switch-Audio-TK-214i/dp/B004L62KN4/ref=sr_ 1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1322228493&sr=1-4 you don't have to use the audio connections.
    In theory you could use a VGA adaptor on the Mac mini to make both use VGA but widespread reports suggest VGA on the latest Mac mini is very unrealiable.

Maybe you are looking for