Quick overview:
Conventional ball mice are slowly becoming obsolete these days and are being replaced by much better optical colleagues with sensors, which can be controlled much more precisely and finely. But there's a trick you can use to give the old rodents a helping hand.
The sample rate determines how often the mouse should be scanned. If you increase this value, more precise and smoother mouse control is possible, which is almost as good as an optical mouse. Under Windows 98/ME you have to download a special program that determines this PS/2 sample rate. This is no longer necessary under Windows 2000, as the setting is conveniently located in the Device Manager:
1. Click with the right mouse button on Workplace > Properties. Click on the tab Hardware and select the button Device Manager.
2. Double-click one after the other on Mice and other pointing devices and then click on the entry for your mouse. A window appears in which you can click on the Extended click.
3. Now set under Sampling rate the value to 200 and under Input buffer length to 300.
After a restart, you will enjoy more precise and finer mouse control, which will benefit you when playing and working.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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