[beverson]

My roommate just bought the MS Wireless Optical mouse for her iMac, and it has a nice feel to it. But she's also having this problem where if you click and drag on something, typically as soon as you stop dragging it will "drop" whatever you've been dragging. Say it's a file or folder on the desktop -- as soon as you stop moving the mouse (but don't let up on the button) the pointer will drop the folder or file. Worse even is if you click and drag down a menu (instead of clicking the menu, then scrubbing down to click again) and pause on a menu item that is not the one you wanted to pick, it will select this item! Very unintuitive and annoying. I can't seem to find a software setting anywhere to change this, and I think it's actually in the hardware. We've installed the drivers on her iMac running 9.x, and the problem is very apparent. But I've tried it on my iMac running 10.3.2, no drivers installed (so OS X is still handling it), and the same problem -- er, feature?? -- is there just as bad. I haven't tried installing the OS X drivers on my iMac to see if they would allow me to turn this off.

If we can't find a way to fix this, she'll probably have to return the mouse.

[osxisfun]

make sure she "resets" the mouse there is a button underneath the base station.

[beverson]

Originally posted by osxisfun:
make sure she "resets" the mouse there is a button underneath the base station.

Thanks for the tip, but no dice. The only non mouse buttons to be found are a connect button on the bottom of the mouse and another button, which I think is also for connecting, on the top of the base station — no buttons at all on the bottom of the base station, just the rubber feet and the label.