[tacgps] GPS Serial Data Causes Mouse Pointer to Move

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Hello Brooke,


This thing had me pulling my hair out for about a month a year ago.
Here is the solution

Run regedit program
      Open Key_Local_Machine
        system
          CurrentControlSet
           Enum
            ACPI
              PNP0501
open PNP0501
Open Device Parameters
create New DWORD Value (then rigth click)
        put name [SkipEnumerations]
open SkipEnumerations
        put Value data [ffffffff] hexadecimal

do that for each serial port.

I hope all that is clear enough, back up your registry before doing
this.

regards,

Angel

Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 1:10:24 PM, you wrote:

> Hi:

> For the last week or so I've been having a problem with the mouse
> pointer moving all by itself.  Today I finally found that it appears
> to be a bug in Windows XP SP2 + latest updates.

> When Windows powers up it sees the GPS serial data on COM1 and
> thinks it's "New Hardware" and installs a driver for a serial ball
> pointing device.

> Using Device Manager to uninstall the serial ball pointing device
> does not work because at the next boot it gets reinstalled.  

> The fix is to Disable the serial ball pointing device.

> 73,

> Brooke Clarke, N6GCE




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