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Have you done a left click somewhere on the window you want to scroll
before you try the scroll wheel on it since if you did not then the scroll
wheel does not know what window if any it is supposed to scroll?
"frogliver" wrote in message
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> I installed an HP wireless mobile mouse in my laptop and the scroll wheel
> does not work. It shows the Auto-scroll icon on the screen when I click
> the wheel but does not move the screen vertically or horizontally.
> Manually scrolling with the wheel does nothing either.
>
> I checked the HP website and have the latest drivers, and their
> troubleshooting/help is no help. The "mouse settings" window I get from
> Control Panel/mouse only sets the amount of lines you want scrolled (this
> mouse wheel has vertical and side-to-side movement). I have tried
> uninstalling/disabling other mice listed in device Manager.
>
> Since the arrows icon appears when the wheel is clicked on a scrollable
> webpage, it knows what I want to do, it just doesn't do anything.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks
>
> frog
before you try the scroll wheel on it since if you did not then the scroll
wheel does not know what window if any it is supposed to scroll?
"frogliver" wrote in message
news:eHLpw61oKHA.1544@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I installed an HP wireless mobile mouse in my laptop and the scroll wheel
> does not work. It shows the Auto-scroll icon on the screen when I click
> the wheel but does not move the screen vertically or horizontally.
> Manually scrolling with the wheel does nothing either.
>
> I checked the HP website and have the latest drivers, and their
> troubleshooting/help is no help. The "mouse settings" window I get from
> Control Panel/mouse only sets the amount of lines you want scrolled (this
> mouse wheel has vertical and side-to-side movement). I have tried
> uninstalling/disabling other mice listed in device Manager.
>
> Since the arrows icon appears when the wheel is clicked on a scrollable
> webpage, it knows what I want to do, it just doesn't do anything.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks
>
> frog