two identical USB mice, what can I do?

yantorsen · 18 May 2008 at 14:11

is there some cool piece of software allowing me to use both in some wierd and wonderful way?

or if i setup my dual screens again can i have one for each screen on the same computer?

cheers

snowdog · 18 May 2008 at 14:48

Afaik you can't get 2 cursors on the pc.
But you can control the single cursor with as many mice as you want, I have a cheapo optical wireless mouse now and Razer Diamondback 3G plugged in, I can use both.

yantorsen · 18 May 2008 at 14:59

yeah, I know you can plug in multiple mice.

Is there no way of having multiple cursors?

or anything else random and cool?

snowdog · 18 May 2008 at 15:01

Hmmm I just came across this and google shows some results:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8b-e8d6-4fff-b805-2798d2c6e41d&DisplayLang=en

Caged · 18 May 2008 at 15:13

The Microsoft EasyBall used to enable two cursors on one screen, it was designed for teaching kids how to use a computer.

So you could always downgrade to Windows 95 and get one of those

Mr. Brightside · 18 May 2008 at 15:59

yantorsen said:
Is there no way of having multiple cursors?

Install Virtual Box and a copy of Windows/Linux as a guest OS. Run it on the other screen and tell Virtual Box to connect the second mouse directly to the guest OS via the Virtual Box USB options. Run this VM on your second screen and there you go, job's a good'n - two desktop environments on one PC.

Hope this helps

yantorsen · 18 May 2008 at 17:16

Caged said:
The Microsoft EasyBall used to enable two cursors on one screen, it was designed for teaching kids how to use a computer.

So you could always downgrade to Windows 95 and get one of those

The Windows MultiPoint SDK is designed to work on Windows Vista (32-bit) or on Windows XP SP2 (32-bit)

yantorsen · 18 May 2008 at 17:17

Mr. Brightside said:
Install Virtual Box and a copy of Windows/Linux as a guest OS. Run it on the other screen and tell Virtual Box to connect the second mouse directly to the guest OS via the Virtual Box USB options. Run this VM on your second screen and there you go, job's a good'n - two desktop environments on one PC.

Hope this helps

could you elaborate a little please

Thanks.

marc2003 · 18 May 2008 at 17:38

Mr. Brightside said:
Install Virtual Box and a copy of Windows/Linux as a guest OS. Run it on the other screen and tell Virtual Box to connect the second mouse directly to the guest OS via the Virtual Box USB options. Run this VM on your second screen and there you go, job's a good'n - two desktop environments on one PC.

Hope this helps

but multiple mice? what's the point?

Mr. Brightside · 18 May 2008 at 17:41

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Download that and install a copy of XP (I mentioned Linux incase you don't have a spare Windows license). Once you've got that done have a play around, if you can't figure it out just ask and I'll explain in more detail (only reason I don't now is I don't have it installed right now so can't easily check the specifics).

marc2003 said:
but multiple mice? what's the point?

I do wonder...

Hope this helps

yantorsen · 18 May 2008 at 17:41

marc2003 said:
but multiple mice? what's the point?

if your ambidextrous (however you spell it) like me, and your using apps that don't require heavy keyboard usage it could potentially double you work/play rate

Mr. Brightside · 18 May 2008 at 17:44

If that's your intention I should emphasize that my suggestion will result in one mouse per operating system, just with two operating systems on the same hardware.

yantorsen · 18 May 2008 at 17:51

Mr. Brightside said:
If that's your intention I should emphasize that my suggestion will result in one mouse per operating system, just with two operating systems on the same hardware.

yeah I realize that, just decided I can't really be bothered to set up my dual screens again either. Take up too much room.

Thanks anyway

will probly try it when i next get the 2nd screen out.