JSI Tip 0900. My mouse wheel is not detected.

Jerold Schulman

December 8, 1998

1 Min Read
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If you have a PS/2 Wheel Mouse without special driver (IntelliPoint or 3rd party), and the wheel is not functional, it is probably not being detected. Browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesi8042prtParameters

Edit or Add Value name EnableWheelDetection, a type REG_DWORD, and set the data to 2.

You can set the scroll by using tip 145.

Restart your computer.

Value

D e s c r i p t i o n

 0 

 Don't use the wheel. 

 1 

 Auto-detect the wheel. 

 2 

 Always enable the wheel. 


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