Why is the mouse not active in system preferences?

When attempting to configure a blue tooth mouse, something happened to the wired mouse. I went to system preferences, click on mouse and got no response. Also the original colnfiguration (I'm left handed and switched buttons) appeared. The mouse works out of system preferences, but the buttons are erratic. I did a (1)reset with a simple power off using the button on the back; no change; (2) after powering off again, I upplugged the iMac for AC and removed all periperals from the computer. Then powered up again; no change. Am not willing to continue without some advice from the experts. My protection plan has expired.

Sounds weird. Have you repaired the disk permissions? Maybe USB-ports have wrong permissions in /dev.
As you cannot use mouse, open Terminal (Command - Space, type in Terminal, Enter) and type command:
diskutil repairPermissions /

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What do I have to do to get them back?

No, all the of the users were active.
Despite the OS reinstall putting ARD 2.2 back into the system, ARD wasn't active. So I went back into the Previous system and found the ARDAgent that was removed by the reinstall. I copied the RemoteManagement folder from the System/Library/CoreServices folder and replaced the new RemoteManagement folder that had been recreated.
Voila - ARD is working perfectly again.
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The Mouse window in my System Preferences doesn't give me the option to assign the buttons

My mouse has suddenly decided over the weekend to assign the middle button to expose. It's bloody annoying because it's far too sensitive and every time I try to left click it now shows me all the open windows. I had turned the middle button off when I got the iMac a year ago because I found it far too sensitive for my fat fingers but it's suddenly started doing it again. While that in itself isn't a huge issue, what is a problem is that when I go in to System Preferences - Mouse the usual diagram with scrolling options that allows you to assign and change the assignations of the buttons isn't there. The upshot is I can't turn the damned thing off.
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The only times I've seen this happen is when other drivers are installed that conflict with Apples. USB overdrive is one of those but there are several.
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Why is the installer stuck on "Checking System Profile-"?

I'm trying to install Flash Catalyst Beta on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard).
The installer starts to work, but then it stops at the point where it checks the system profile (see attached screenshot). It doesn't seem to have crashed as the dock icon allows me to quit without force quitting the application.
I've tried it in my regular user account and the administrator account, but the behaviour is identical.
Any help would be appreciated.

I appreciate all your efforts, but I¹ve just received my new copy of CS5, so
I¹ll be installing the final version.
G
From: ritesh kapoor <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:32:06 -0600
To: Gary Horsman <[email protected]>
Subject: Why is the installer stuck on "Checking System
Profile…"?
Thanks Gary.
I need to ask you a few questions and request you to perform some more steps
so that I can debug your problem.
1. Have you modified any folder permissions, authorization setup using
Keychain Access utility (or any other tool)?
2. Open a Terminal window, and run the command 'ls -l /tmp' and copy-paste
the output printed on your screen in your reply.
3. Delete all files whose name start with 'asu' in your /tmp folder. Run the
command 'rm -rf /tmp/asu*'. Restart your machine.
4. Launch the Flash Catalyst setup and check if installation proceeds
successfully. If it doesn't, proceed to the step below.
5. Open the folder containing the Flash Catalyst setup. Browse to the
'packages' folder and rename the file 'install.sig' to 'update.sig'. Double
click and launch the Flash Catalyst setup. This will not install the
application but install the Adobe Application Manager. Let me know if you
see a small dialog with a progress bar. Rename back update.sig to
install.sig. Update us your observations. Continue to next step.
6. Launch 'Disk Utility' app (from /Applications/Utilities). Select your OS
partition in the left panel and click on 'First Aid' tab on the top. Click
on the 'Repair Disk Permissions' button at the bottom.
7. Again, launch the Flash Catalyst setup and check if installation proceeds
successfully. If it doesn't, proceed to the step below.
8. Open a Terminal window and navigate to the directory containing the Flash
Catalyst setup. Run the command 'sudo Install.app/Contents/MacOS/Install'
and enter the password. Let me know if the installer launches and on
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Why do the number of active JMS connections increase?

Problem
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Setup
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Edited by: pkeller on 23.10.2008 17:08

To answer the question about the forwarding of messages from one queue to another myself: As mentioned at http://forums.bea.com/thread.jspa?threadID=400000611, the forwarding for queues does only work if all queue consumers are attached to the same queue. This means that our setup is OK.
But the main question is still unanswered: why do the number of active JMS connections increase? I forgot to mention that
- all messages arrive at the clients and that no exceptions are visible in the log
- if you kill the client, the connections are still visible in the Weblogic console!?
Please help as this problem is very urgent.
Peter
Edited by: pkeller on 24.10.2008 09:06
Edited by: pkeller on 24.10.2008 09:10

HT1338 why is the video not working with skype on this os

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