I've been using a Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 for the past few weeks on Ubuntu 11.10 and it's been really great. However, when I recently went into my Windows 7 partition and allowed Windows update to run, it installed some driver/configuration software for the mouse, and this has since ruined the mouse-wheel for me.
The wheel is a smooth-rolling one, and in Ubuntu it scrolls down a line many more times per revolution of the wheel than it did before. This makes it horribly sensitive to movement and it's now useless for scrolling as it's so hard to control.
I'm a bit confused how what happened could have affected it as I would have thought any driver for Windows would be totally separate to the driver used for Ubuntu.
So the question, any thoughts on how to undo what Windows did? Because it seems to me as though it physically changed the firmware on the mouse, so I'm not sure a system restore would fix the issue (though admittedly I haven't tried this yet)
Thanks in advance
Edit: On playing around with it a bit more, it may actually be that the distance covered by one increment of the wheel is much more than before, I guess it's academic though as all I really want to do is revert it back to how it was before
The wheel is a smooth-rolling one, and in Ubuntu it scrolls down a line many more times per revolution of the wheel than it did before. This makes it horribly sensitive to movement and it's now useless for scrolling as it's so hard to control.
I'm a bit confused how what happened could have affected it as I would have thought any driver for Windows would be totally separate to the driver used for Ubuntu.
So the question, any thoughts on how to undo what Windows did? Because it seems to me as though it physically changed the firmware on the mouse, so I'm not sure a system restore would fix the issue (though admittedly I haven't tried this yet)
Thanks in advance
Edit: On playing around with it a bit more, it may actually be that the distance covered by one increment of the wheel is much more than before, I guess it's academic though as all I really want to do is revert it back to how it was before
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