Anti-Minimiser...

Hunterkiller · Post by **Hunterkiller** » September 15th, 2006, 18:08

Anyone have any programmes that stop your games from being minimised?

Because whenever I'm playing CSS or F.E.A.R. or DoD:S or anything really, my mouse decides that it has low battery, even though it dosn't, and pops up a little "your mouse has critical battery" message, that minimises my game, very annoying, I allways end up dead.

I noticed on DOOM 3 you can't minnimise, unless you get a programme, I LOVED THAT, is there a programme that does the opposite for other games?

cheers guys

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » September 15th, 2006, 18:36

not using a cordless mouse?

they are NOT the way forward

i demand you put a wire on the mouse

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 15th, 2006, 18:39

Never thought i'd say this.

shot2bits is right.

either that or remove the mouse app, you should still get most functio, just not the useless shines.

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » September 15th, 2006, 19:58

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Never thought i'd say this.

shot2bits is right.

either that or remove the mouse app, you should still get most functio, just not the useless shines.

and maybe get a bit of

and some

ooooh yeeahh

Hunterkiller · Post by **Hunterkiller** » September 16th, 2006, 10:14

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Never thought i'd say this.

shot2bits is right.

either that or remove the mouse app, you should still get most functio, just not the useless shines.

Its a microsoft mouse, its all intergrated with the control panel, I dont think I CAN remove the software

Post by **FatherJack** » September 16th, 2006, 21:53

Hunterkiller wrote:Its a microsoft mouse, its all intergrated with the control panel, I dont think I CAN remove the software

It's shown as Microsoft Intellipoint in add/remove programs, without it the wheel should still work, but possibly not the tilt or more than 3 buttons. If it's a smooth scroller you could have trouble with its sensitivity too.

If it goes wrong, just can always reinstall it from here.

I have an MS Wireless Optical 2.0 and it's stopped misbehaving re: battery low mesage since I started using alkaline batteries instead of rechargables.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » September 16th, 2006, 22:56

It could be easily made I suppose. All you have to do is hook into the on-focus-change callback in windows and kill the callback off before it actually changes focus. Not sure how good an idea that would be mind - all sorts of strange behaviour could come of it. Also things like ctrl+alt+del would always have priority so you couldn't completely stop all focus changes.

Maybe i'll have a go at it one day.

I'm not aware of any that exisit at the moment.

As for wireless mice - or any mice really - go with the windows drivers, they are sooooo much faster. I use wireless mice all the time, no probs here.

Hunterkiller · Post by **Hunterkiller** » September 17th, 2006, 7:56

FatherJack wrote:
It's shown as Microsoft Intellipoint in add/remove programs, without it the wheel should still work, but possibly not the tilt or more than 3 buttons. If it's a smooth scroller you could have trouble with its sensitivity too.

If it goes wrong, just can always reinstall it from here.

I have an MS Wireless Optical 2.0 and it's stopped misbehaving re: battery low mesage since I started using alkaline batteries instead of rechargables.

I already use alkaline batteries, Ill give it a go, with out the software...