I've tried my best to avoid Vista.... and so far I've run a Mac, an XP and an Ubuntu OS....(for what I needed)
So far, so good... Yves Arsenault "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend". --Martin Luther King, Jr. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My MS wireless mouse (the kind with the little dongle you plug into the USB > port) just croaked, so I bought a new wireless mouse. I decided to go > Bluetooth so I could skip the dongle, which takes up a valuable USB port > and > gets in the way. I picked up an HP Bluetooth Laser Mobile Mouse, primarily > because I have an HP laptop, but also because that's the only one I saw at > BestBuy and I didn't want to shop around. > > I got the thing home and got the driver software installed. Then I tried to > run the HP Easy Pair software to pair the mouse. No luck, the software > complains that btcoreif.dll is missing and refuses to run. Huh. So I open > the Help file for the mouse from the CD, and it tells me to pair the mouse > manually using the Bluetooth manager. So I put the mouse in pairing mode > and > try to add it. Vista finds the mouse and asks me about using a passkey. The > docs say no passkey, so I say no passkey. Vista does its thing and says > that > the mouse is paired and ready to be used. Only the mouse "pairing mode > light" is still blinking, and moving the mouse around doesn't do squat. > Vista thinks the mouse is paired, but the mouse is clueless. > > Lots of additional attempts later, the mouse is still not talking to Vista. > So I move over to my Ubuntu desktop and ask it to add the mouse. It finds > the mouse and pairs it within 5 seconds, and the mouse works. MSFT should > be > ashamed, and it leads me to the conclusion that Vista Must Die. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:289511 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
